A compilation of personal correspondence written over a sixty-year period offers insight into Kurt Vonnegut's literary personality, his experiences as a German POW, his struggles with fame, and the inspirations for his famous books.
Explores how Kurt Vonnegut's work was influenced by various forces in American life, including the Great Depression, World War II, postwar America, the entrepreneurship of the 1950s, and the countercultural revolt of the 1960s.
Billy Pilgrim is a loner cast adrift in time and space, a victim of fate, who is shuttled back and forth between the starkly contrasting worlds of a zoo on another planet, where he is a specimen, and nightmarish Nazi Germany during the fire-bombing of Dresden.
Collects critical essays on Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five, " including selections by Kevin Alexander Boon, C. Barry Chabot, Leonard Mustazza, and others; and includes a chronology of the life of the author.
Kurt Vonnegut reflects on life in America, drawing on examples from Mark Twain, Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, and others to explore what it means to be an American.
