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Hocus Pocus or, What's the Hurry, Son?
Kurt Vonnegut
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Description for Hocus Pocus or, What's the Hurry, Son?
Paperback. Eugene Debs Hartke, ex-Vietnam vet, ex-college professor, current inmate of Tarkington State Reformatory, awaits his trial and probable death from TB. How did he get there? Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
'Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country' - New York Times Book Review
Some get all the luck – but not Eugene Debs Hartke. Ex-Vietnam vet, ex-college professor, and now a TB-stricken inmate at Tarkington State Reformatory, his life has been warped by one ludicrous farce after another. Here, on scraps of paper pilfered from the prison library, he recounts his own story for posterity, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099877103
SKU
9780099877103
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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 Hocus Pocus or, What's the Hurry, Son?
Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country
New York Times Book Review
Vonnegut's best novel in years-funny and prophetic...something special
The Nation
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New York Times Book Review
Vonnegut's best novel in years-funny and prophetic...something special
The Nation
... Read more