Author:
Vonnegut, Kurt, author.
ImprintNew York, NY : The Library of America, / [2016]
Imprint2016
Description754 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Note:Bluebeard -- Hocus Pocus -- Timequake -- A special message to readers of the Franklin Library's signed first edition of Bluebeard -- Four essays on artists -- A special message to readers of the Franklin Library's signed first edition of Hocus Pocus -- The Last tasmanian -- Talk prepared for delivery at Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, Indianapolis, April 27, 2007 -- Chronology -- Note on the texts -- Notes.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
Note:..."The final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. Now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling prison memoir by a Vietnam vet and disgraced academic, Vonnegut brings his indelible voice to a range of still-burning issues--free speech, racism, environmental calamity, deindustrialization, and globalization. Timequake (1997), the author's last completed novel, is part science fiction yarn (starring perennial protagonist Kilgore Trout), part diary of the mid-1990s (starring the author himself). The result is a perfect fusion of Vonnegut's two signature genres, the satirical fantasy and the personal essay, and a literary magician's fond farewell to his readers and his craft."--jacket.
