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Breakfast of Champions

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Copyright © 1973 by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
1973
Fiction
1985
1 time
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In Memory of Phoebe Hurty,
who comforted me in Indianapolis -
during the Great Depression
This is the tale of a meeting of two lonely, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.
May contain spoilers
Make me young!
Comments may contain spoilers
I bought this book in Mississippi.  This was the second book of Vonnegut's that I read.  My fried suggested it, and I remembered Salpstick that I had read in High School, so I got it.  It was pretty amazing.  This also eventually led me to buying Venus on the Half Shell.
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Added: 29-Dec-2002
Last Updated: 27-Apr-2020

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 01-Jan-1975
Dell Publishing Company
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-1975
Pages*:
296
Read:
Once
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
402
ISBN:
0-440-13148-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-440-13148-9
Printing:
30
Country:
United States
Language:
English
"A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION!"
- Chicago Sun-Times

"Vonnegut just keeps getting better and better... a superb, extraordinary, vastly entertaining novel!"
- Washington Star-News

"Vonnegut creates a magic that makes pornography seem like plumbing, violence like lovemaking, guilt like child's-play.  He wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful, and lovable, all at the same time.  He weaves nearly a dozen Vonnegut stories into one plot.  He draws pictures, for God's sake, simple, rough, yet surprisingly seductive.  He very nearly levitates...  It's marvelous!"
- The New York Times

And so it goes.  For if there is one thing on which both critics and millions of readers agree, it's that there is only one Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - and he is at his very best in BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS.
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 11-May-1999
Delta
Order from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
11-May-1999
Pages*:
302
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
398
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-385-33420-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-385-33420-4
Country:
United States
Language:
English
"VONNEGUT IS GEORGE ORWELL, DR. CALIGARI AND FLASH GORDON COMPOUNDED INTO ONE WRITER... A ZANY BUT MORAL MAD SCIENTIST."  - Time

KURT VONNEGUT
is a master of contrmporary American literature.  His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist"* with Cat's Cradle in 1963.  He is, as Graham Green has declared, "one of the best living American writers."

BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
is vintage Vonnegut.  One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth.  The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

"FREE-WHEELING, WILD AND GREAT... UNIQUELY VONNEGUT." - Publishers Weekly

* The New York Times
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01-Jan-1975
Dell Publishing Company


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11-May-1999
Delta


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