Novels, 1987-1997
By: Kurt Vonnegut ; Sidney Offit, editor
Contributors: Offit, Sidney, editor; Vonnegut, Kurt
Series: The Library of America -- 273; Library of America -- 273.
Publisher: The Library of America
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 754
ISBN-13: 9781598534641
Subjects: Autobiography; Literary collections; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Artists; Authorship; Prisoners; Fiction
Work titles: Works
Description: ..."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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Bluebeard --; title: Hocus pocus --; title: Timequake.