Break of Champions Kurt Vonnegut Jr. LEATHER Signed Edition Easton Press 200

A fine leather-bound signed limited edition. With publisher's certificate of authenticity signed by Vonnegut laid in, and publisher's note about the book and the author also laid in. Protected by supplied glassine cover. Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2001.

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. Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast. One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer and Burger Chef franchise owner who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane.

As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok. Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922. He studied at the universities of Chicago and Tennessee and later began to write short stories for magazines. His first novel, Player Piano, was published in 1951 and since then he has written many novels, among them: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother Night (1961), Cat's Cradle (1963), God Bless You Mr Rosewater (1964), Welcome to the Monkey House; a collection of short stories (1968), Breakfast of Champions (1973), Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976), Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), Galapagos (1985), Bluebeard (1988) and Hocus Pocus (1990).

During the Second World War he was held prisoner in Germany and was present at the bombing of Dresden, an experience which provided the setting for his most famous work to date, Slaughterhouse Five (1969). He has also published a volume of autobiography entitled Palm Sunday (1981) and a collection of essays and speeches, Fates Worse Than Death (1991). This item is in the category "Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "jpmacksunlimited" and is located in this country: US.

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• Binding: Leather
• Origin: American
• Place of Publication: Norwalk CT
• Publisher: Easton Press
• Subject: Literature & Fiction
• Year Printed: 2001
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Language: English
• Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Collector's Edition, Limited Edition, Luxury Edition, Signed
• Region: North America
• Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Topic: Literature, Modern

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