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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.” —The New York Times Book Review
Eliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature... with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is Kurt Vonnegut’s funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.
A brilliantly funny satire on almost everything.” —Conrad Aiken
[Vonnegut was] our finest black humorist... We laugh in self-defense.” —The Atlantic Monthly
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780385333474
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 September 1998
Country: United States
Imprint: Random House Inc
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 133.0mm
Height: 203.0mm
Weight: 215g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Kurt Vonnegut’s humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist” (The New York Times) with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
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