Book description
According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake
will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when
the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a
great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991,
making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total
loss of free will - not to mention the torture of reliving every
nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades. With his
trademark wicked wit, Vonnegut addresses memory, suicide, the Great
Depression, the loss of American eloquence, and the obsolescent thrill
of reading books. Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and
studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War
he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of was in Germany, witnessed the
destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired
his classic novel
Slaughterhouse-Five
. He is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of
stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.
