Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage

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1992
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Honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart. New York Times An anthology in which Vonnegut freely quotes himself on everything from art and architecture to madness and mass murder...Uncompromising. Los Angeles Times Here we have a collection of essays and speeches by me, with breezy autobiographical commentary serving as connective tissue and splints and bandages. Here we go again with real life and opinions made to look like one big, preposterous animal not unlike an invention by Dr. Seuss... Kurt Vonnegut, from Fates Worse Than Death

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Honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart. New York Times An anthology in which Vonnegut freely quotes himself on everything from art and architecture to madness and mass murder...Uncompromising. Los Angeles Times Here we have a collection of essays and speeches by me, with breezy autobiographical commentary serving as connective tissue and splints and bandages. Here we go again with real life and opinions made to look like one big, preposterous animal not unlike an invention by Dr. Seuss... Kurt Vonnegut, from Fates Worse Than Death"

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
Published: Sep 1992
ISBN 10: 0425134067
ISBN 13: 9780425134061

Media Reviews
Praise for Kurt Vonnegut and Fates Worse Than Death
Mr. Vonnegut is perhaps more intimate with the reader than ever. --The New York Times
An often insightful and always funny self-portrait that may be as much of an autobiography as we will ever get from Vonnegut. --Playboy
The kindred spirit of Mark Twain harpoons humanity with howling assessments...Vonnegut's genius for satire continues to shine. --Nashville Banner
Mordantly funny...highly entertaining. --New York Newsday

Author Bio
Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him, in the words of The New York Times, as a true artist with the publication of 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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