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God Bless You, Mr.Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut
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Description for God Bless You, Mr.Rosewater
Paperback. Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life serving the dull, the ugly, the irrelevant and the useless. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 144.
With the satirical eye of his science fiction author alter ego Kilgore Trout, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five delivers a classic of modern American literature.
Eliot Rosewater, President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation and volunteer firefighter, is tortured by an inheritance he doesn’t feel that he deserves. After (unfortunately) developing a social conscience, he sets out on a drunken tour of America, unravelling a little more at every stop until his path crosses with the science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is one of Kurt Vonnegut’s funniest satires, about the pleasures, pains and perversions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099842804
SKU
V9780099842804
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99-6
About Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a ... Read more
Reviews for God Bless You, Mr.Rosewater
Vonnegut faces up to the less glamorous phenomenon of human mediocrity in this sharp, hilarious, boundlessly humane story. It taught me about compassion and a few things about writing good dialogue
Michel Faber
Glasgow Herald
Rumbustious stuff... There may be greater novelists than Vonnegut, but there can be a few, if any, with as much good humour ... Read more
Michel Faber
Glasgow Herald
Rumbustious stuff... There may be greater novelists than Vonnegut, but there can be a few, if any, with as much good humour ... Read more