TIMEQUAKE. - Softcover

Vonnegut, Kurt [Jr.].

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224036408 ISBN 13: 9780224036405

Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1997)., 1997

Synopsis

Hardcover. -First UK Edition, First Print- Very good condition. In clipped dust jacket, with marks to front, shelf wear to back, and bumped to spine ends. F E P with previous owners penned inscription. Hardcover bumped to spine ends. Pages tanned to edges. Text fine. RB

About this title

Review

Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a confident final trot 'round the track by one of the greats of postwar American literature. After 40 years of practice, Vonnegut's got his schtick down cold, and it's a pleasure--if a slightly tame one--to watch him go through his paces one more time.

Timequake's a mongrel; it is half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade's worth of writer's block, a book "that didn't want to be written." The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: "...a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during past decades, for good or ill, a second time..." Simultaneously, the author's favorite tricks are on display--frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book's end, and frequent authorial opining on love, war, and society.

About the Author

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) is the author of the novels Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973).

Edition details

• Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1997).
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224036408
• ISBN 13: 9780224036405
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288