Breaking Down Vonnegut

ISBN-13: 9781119746096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 128 str.

Marc Leeds

Spis treści

About the Author xiAbout the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library xiiiAcknowledgments xvIntroduction xviiPart IChapter One: There Was Always Someone to Talk with, to Play with, to Learn From 3Part IIChapter Two: I Look Sort of Starved 15Part IIIChapter Three: Player Piano and a Trustworthy Prophet or Sharp-Eyed Satirist 29Chapter Four: "Harrison Bergeron": A Twist on David and Goliath for the Civil Rights Era 41Chapter Five: Slaughterhouse-Five and a New Kind of Patriot 51Part IVChapter Six: The True Measure of a Man 67Chapter Seven: Why Study Vonnegut? 79Notes 89Index 9

O autorze

JULIA A. WHITEHEAD, an award-winning entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis and owner of the communications consulting firm Random Harvest Group. Whitehead is a recognized expert and lecturer on the life and works of Kurt Vonnegut.