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In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides readers, with insight and passion, through a biography of 15 of Kurt Vonnegut's best known works - his 14 novels, starting with Player Piano (Bantam, 1999), all the way to an epilogue on his last book, A Man Without A Country (Bloomsbury, 2007), to illustrate the quintessential American writer's profound engagement with the American Dream' in its various forms. Sumner gives readers a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the traditional values associated with the American Dream.'

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Like so many of America's great vernacular spokespersons--Abraham Lincoln, Will Rogers, Frank Lloyd Wright--Kurth Vonnegut knew that he'd be most convincing when telling his own story with simple, plain honesty. Gregory D. Sumner has perceived that directness in Vonnegut's novels, and correlates the author's life and works in an engaging, almost spellbinding manner. The Grand Old Man would have liked this book, and I can sense his blessing on it. --Professor Jerome Klinkowitz, author of Vonnegut in Fact, The Vonnegut Effect, and Kurt Vonnegut's America Gregory D. Sumner celebrates what he playfully identifies as the 'Kurt Vonnegut road show' with a tribute that is enlightening and entertaining. I read with wonder and delight the biographical sketches so gracefully fused with a montage of Vonnegut stories and the ideas they dramatize. Unstuck in Time is an achievement of scholarship illuminated by a fan's contagious enthusiasm. --Sidney Offit, Curator-emeritus George Polk Journalism Awards Gregory D. Sumner's Unstuck in Time is a wonderful primer to Kurt Vonnegut's work. Every page brims with analytic insight, biographical revelation, and old-fashioned storytelling. Reading Sumner reminds us about how astoundingly right Vonnegut was about the planetary condition. Highly recommended! --Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice University Unstuck in Time is a fine, appreciative account of the life and work of a great American writer, Kurt Vonnegut. --Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties An excellent reading companion to Kurt's work. --Mark Vonnegut

Like so many of America's great vernacular spokespersons--Abraham Lincoln, Will Rogers, Frank Lloyd Wright--Kurth Vonnegut knew that he'd be most convincing when telling his own story with simple, plain honesty. Gregory D. Sumner has perceived that directness in Vonnegut's novels, and correlates the author's life and works in an engaging, almost spellbinding manner. The Grand Old Man would have liked this book, and I can sense his blessing on it. <br>--Professor Jerome Klinkowitz, author of Vonnegut in Fact , The Vonnegut Effect , and Kurt Vonnegut's America <br><br> Gregory D. Sumner celebrates what he playfully identifies as the 'Kurt Vonnegut road show' with a tribute that is enlightening and entertaining. I read with wonder and delight the biographical sketches so gracefully fused with a montage of Vonnegut stories and the ideas they dramatize. Unstuck in Time is an achievement of scholarship illuminated by a fan's contagious enthusiasm. --Sidney Offit, Curator-emeritus George Polk Journalism Awards<br><br> Gregory D. Sumner's Unstuck in Time is a wonderful primer to Kurt Vonnegut's work. Every page brims with analytic insight, biographical revelation, and old-fashioned storytelling. Reading Sumner reminds us about how astoundingly right Vonnegut was about the planetary<br>condition. Highly recommended! <br>--Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice University <br><br> 'Unstuck in Time' is a fine, appreciative account of the life and work of a great American writer, Kurt Vonnegut. <br>--Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties<br> <br> An excellent reading companion to Kurt's work. <br>--Mark Vonnegut

Like so many of America's great vernacular spokespersons--Abraham Lincoln, Will Rogers, Frank Lloyd Wright--Kurth Vonnegut knew that he'd be most convincing when telling his own story with simple, plain honesty. Gregory D. Sumner has perceived that directness in Vonnegut's novels, and correlates the author's life and works in an engaging, almost spellbinding manner. The Grand Old Man would have liked this book, and I can sense his blessing on it. <br>--Professor Jerome Klinkowitz, author of Vonnegut in Fact, The Vonnegut Effect, and Kurt Vonnegut's America <br> Gregory D. Sumner celebrates what he playfully identifies as the 'Kurt Vonnegut road show' with a tribute that is enlightening and entertaining. I read with wonder and delight the biographical sketches so gracefully fused with a montage of Vonnegut stories and the ideas they dramatize. Unstuck in Time is an achievement of scholarship illuminated by a fan's contagious enthusiasm. --Sidney Offit, Curator-emeritus Georgei

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GREGORY D. SUMNER, JD, PhD, is chair of history at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he has taught since 1993. He holds a doctorate in American history from Indiana University and is the author of Dwight Macdonald and the Politics Circle. Sumner has been awarded summer fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has twice been William J. Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Université di Roma Tre.

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