Hocus Pocus (CH) - Hardcover

Vonnegut, Kurt

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ISBN 10: 0708986161 ISBN 13: 9780708986165

Publisher: Charnwood, 1999

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America in the twenty-first century: there are colleges for learning-disabled children of rich parents, U.S. prisons are contracted out to Japanese managers, and America's single military defeat - Vietnam - continues to misshape society. With the largest prison break in history and the escape of 10,000 convicts from the New State Maximum Security Adult Correctional Institute pandemonium breaks out - and plans for colonizing the rest of the world are put on hold...

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About the Author:

Kurt Vonnegut is a unique voice in the American canon — a writer whose works are hard to categorize, often straddling the space between literature and science fiction, and filled with cutting satire and dark humor. Like Mark Twain before him, Vonnegut's reputation and impact on American writing and reading will continue to grow steadily and increase in relevance as new insights are made. Vonnegut was born in 1922 in Indianapolis, and studied at the University of Chicago and the University of Tennessee. In the Second World War, he became a German prisoner of war and was present during the bombing of Dresden. This experience provided inspiration for his most successful and influential novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. Vonnegut — admired as much for his views and his “Vonnegutisms” as for his publications — wrote extensively in many forms, including novels, short stories, essays, plays, articles, speeches, and correspondence, some of which was published posthumously.

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While awaiting trial for an initially unspecified crime, Vietnam vet and college professor Eugene Debs Hartke realizes that he has killed exactly as many people as he has had sex with, a coincidence that causes him to doubt his atheism. According to PW , "The cumulative power of the novel is considerable, revealing Vonnegut at his fanciful and playful best."
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