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Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel Player Piano (1952) achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'. His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.

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The non-stop invention, the jokes and clowning are in the familiar Vonnegut tradition * Daily Telegraph *
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A brilliant wacky ideas-monger * Observer *
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One of the master alchemists of modern American fiction * Sunday Times *

Slapstick or Lonesome No More

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 17 October 1991
      ISBN-13 9780099842705
      978-0099842705
      ISBN-10 009984270X
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      Book Synopsis
      Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel Player Piano (1952) achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'. His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.

      Trade Review
      The non-stop invention, the jokes and clowning are in the familiar Vonnegut tradition * Daily Telegraph *
      Wittily and engagingly written * Guardian *
      A brilliant wacky ideas-monger * Observer *
      A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny * Financial Times *
      One of the master alchemists of modern American fiction * Sunday Times *

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