Breakfast of Champions |
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Author:
| Vonnegut, Kurt |
ISBN: | 978-0-7953-1195-6 |
Publisher: | RosettaBooks
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $7.99 |
Book Description:
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Breakfast of Champions tells a crazy-quilt story that eventually defies the constraints of the novel format itself. Breakfast of Champions is one of Vonnegut's greatest successes, a freewheeling and hugely entertaining meditation on modern American life that draws in some definitive figures from the author's imagination, such as the hapless sci-fi writer Kilgore Trout and the wealthy Elliot Rosewater, and finally the author himself. Breakfast of Champions trips through American mindset...
More DescriptionBreakfast of Champions tells a crazy-quilt story that eventually defies the constraints of the novel format itself. Breakfast of Champions is one of Vonnegut's greatest successes, a freewheeling and hugely entertaining meditation on modern American life that draws in some definitive figures from the author's imagination, such as the hapless sci-fi writer Kilgore Trout and the wealthy Elliot Rosewater, and finally the author himself. Breakfast of Champions trips through American mindset of the early 1970s, its deadpan irony satirizing the party line on just about everything, from sex and racism to the Vietnam War and the meaning of the American dream.One of Vonnegut's most enduring creations, Kilgore Trout is a science fiction writer who has not known much success as Breakfast of Champions begins. To his amazement, he is invited to the Midwest, to participate in the Festival of the Arts in Midland City, at the insistence of the crazy but wealthy Eliot Rosewater. Trout is on a collision course with one of Midland City's more successful businessmen, a Pontiac dealer named Dwayne Hoover, who happens to be slipping into insanity (too many bad chemicals in his system). Reading a Trout story sends Hoover completely around the bend. The novel itself then follows him, as Vonnegut's inquisitive imagination divines the freaky chaos beneath the careful surface of American life.