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Breakfast of Champions

Discover this iconic novel from the brilliant space-wanderer Kurt Vonnegut - rejacketed in a new, witty series style.

Kurt Vonnegut author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:21st May '92

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'After Vonnegut, everything else seems a bit tame' Spectator

In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.

Discover Vonnegurt’s funny absurdist novel about the human condition.

‘Outrageous, witty, thought-provoking, unputdownable, scintillating, invigorating, ennobling, enlightening and masterly’ Spectator

In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.

‘Vonnegut explains everything from an apple to the pyramids…weird, fast and inventive’ Daily Telegraph

Vonnegut performs considerable complex magic... Fresh, funny, outrageous...he very nearly levitates * New York Times *
He’s just so fucking amazing. Everyone should read Vonnegut. -- Tim Minchin
A great deal of wit and playfulness...an entire universe of disorder is distilled * Guardian *
Outrageous, witty, thought-provoking, unputdownable, scintillating, invigorating, ennobling, enlightening and masterly * Spectator *
Brilliant... It seems, at times, as if Voltaire has returned to satirise the horrors of plastic, disposable America * Sunday Times *

ISBN: 9780099842606

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 19mm

Weight: 223g

320 pages