A Man Without a Country - Brossura

Vonnegut, Kurt

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ISBN 10: 081297736X ISBN 13: 9780812977363

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 2007

Riassunto

In a collection of concise autobiographical essays, the renowned novelist offers his views on his own life, from growing up during the Great Depression to his fame as a writer, as well as his reflections on art, politics, and everyday life in America. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person.”–USA Today
 
“[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir.”–Los Angeles Times

“Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut’s] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading A Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an old friend.”–The New York Times Book Review

“Filled with [Vonnegut’s] usual contradictory mix of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, humor and gravity.”–Chicago Tribune

“Fans will linger on every word . . . as once again [Vonnegut] captures the complexity of the human condition with stunning calligraphic simplicity.”–The Australian

“Thank God, Kurt Vonnegut has broken his promise that he will never write another book. In this wondrous assemblage of mini-memoirs, we discover his family’s legacy and his obstinate, unfashionable humanism.”–Studs Terkel

“This book is nothing if not a big shot in the arm of concentrated hope.”—The Sycamore Review
 
“No other American humorist see-saws from gravity to gobbledygook this effectively, in part because for Vonnegut the two are always connected. Life for him is deadly serious, bu the best way to deal with fear is to laugh in its face.”—The Jerusalem Post

L'autore:

Kurt Vonnegut’s 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” (The New York Times) with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.

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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 081297736X
• ISBN 13: 9780812977363
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160