Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (Vintage Classics)
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
English | 16 Jan. 2014 | ISBN: 0099582945 | EPUB | 464 pages | 2.5 MB
English | 16 Jan. 2014 | ISBN: 0099582945 | EPUB | 464 pages | 2.5 MB
This collection of Vonnegut’s letters is the autobiography he never wrote – from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life’. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: ‘I am an American fad―of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop’.
Like Vonnegut’s books, his letters make you think, they make you outraged and they make you laugh. Written over a sixty-year period, and never published before, these letters are alive with the unique point of view that made Vonnegut one of the most original writers in American fiction.