Title: Kurt Vonnegut /
Authors: Klinkowitz, Jerome.
Publisher: Methuen,
Year: 1982
Subjects: Vonnegut, Kurt Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: Traces Vonnegut's influences within the American middle class, his early efforts as a short-story writer magazines, and his success as a bestselling experimental novelist with Slaughterhouse-Five.
Contents: Vonnegut and the new novel -- The formula novel: Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan and Mother Night -- From formula toward experiment: Cat's Cradle and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater -- The personal novels: Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, Slapstick and Jailbird -- From metaphor to discourse.