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Kurt Vonnegut

Paperback Book  |  Childrens  |  07 Jan 2025
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"Mr. Wakefield's account of Vonnegut's life is funny and tender, the kind of book that will leave you bruised and happy and reverberating a little, as if you are a piano that someone has just finished playing." -Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal

The first and only YA biography of the great American novelist and humanist and author of such classics as Slaughterhouse Five. Now in Paperback.

"Mr. Wakefield's account of Vonnegut's life is funny and tender, the kind of book that will leave you bruised and happy and reverberating a little, as if you are a piano that someone has just finished playing." -Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal


Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, and many other brilliant novels and short stories, is one of our greatest American writers, often using science fiction, humor, and a humanist view of society, religion, politics, and human nature in his writing to show us the absurdity and the loveliness of life on earth. Born in 1922, Vonnegut's life was full of great fortune and great despair- his family was wealthy, but lost everyting in the market crash of 1929; he was the youngest son in a loving family, until his mother fell into a depression and committed suicide; he joined the army in WWII with great pride for our country, but experienced instead a world of destruction and horror. These and many others were the experiences that made him a writer. But how did he channel the highs and lows of his life into great writing?

Dan Wakefield, a friend and mentee of Vonnegut's for decades and a fellow Hoosier, distills the facts including Kurt's novels, essays, interviews, letters and personal experiences, into a beautiful telling of the making of a writer. Using the second person "You," it is as though Wakefield is a friend walking through Kurt's life alongside him, a guide for readers to his extraordinary life. The book also includes original art by Vonnegut and family photographs. Here is an American life, a burgeoning artist's life to inspire anyone who has read Vonnegut's work or who themselves aspire to write.

Title: Kurt Vonnegut

Format: Paperback Book

Release Date: 07 Jan 2025

Type: Dan Wakefield

Sku: 3147591

Catalogue No: 9781644214046

Category: Childrens


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