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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Book name: Breakfast of Champions (2024)
Category: Fiction
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Pages: 303 pages
ISBN13: 0385334206
ISBN: 0385334206
Language: English
Publication data: May 1, 1999, 7 a.m.
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In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

About the author

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

11 books

Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003.

He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. He attended Cornell University from 1941 to 1943, where he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. Vonnegut trained as a chemist and worked as a journalist before joining the U.S. Army and serving in World War II.

After the war, he attended University … Read more