description: Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th &amp; last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a confident final trot around the track by one of the greats of postwar American literature. After 40 years of practice, he's got his schtick down cold, &amp; it's a pleasure--if a slightly tame one--to watch him go through his paces one more time. Timequake's a mongrel; it's half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade's worth of writer's block, a book "that didn't want to be written." The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: "...a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody &amp; everything do exactly what they'd done during past decades, for good or ill, a 2nd time." Simultaneously, the author's favorite tricks are on display--frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book's end, &amp; frequent authorial opining on love, war &amp; society.
language: English
title: Timequake
titlecomplete: Timequake
genres: Classics, American, Fantasy, Time Travel, Humor, Novels, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 37418
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Putnam Adult