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"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count.
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Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Distribution Ser
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0586040110
- ISBN 13 9780586040119
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages288
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ISBN 13: 9780586040119
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Breakfast of Champions
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HarperCollins Distribution Ser, 1974
ISBN 10: 0586040110
ISBN 13: 9780586040119
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Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday!
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ISBN 13: 9780586040119
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 271pp incl numerous naive but wonderful drawings by the author. Panther special overseas edition published in 1974. This edition published in 1975. Orig published in the USA in 1973. Small gift inscription to bottom of one of the prelim pages. Pages quite heavily age-tanned. Some creasing to bottom corner of back cover. Spine is uncreased. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 003513
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