Breakfast of Champions: A Novel

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Random House Publishing Group, Sep 23, 2009 - Fiction - 320 pages
“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times

In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

“Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers Weekly
 

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
11
Section 3
17
Section 4
23
Section 5
29
Section 6
31
Section 7
39
Section 8
51
Section 18
162
Section 19
163
Section 20
166
Section 21
170
Section 22
175
Section 23
181
Section 24
191
Section 25
205

Section 9
71
Section 10
79
Section 11
90
Section 12
115
Section 13
127
Section 14
135
Section 15
138
Section 16
141
Section 17
159
Section 26
229
Section 27
253
Section 28
261
Section 29
273
Section 30
281
Section 31
289
Section 32
305
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About the author (2009)

Kurt Vonnegut’s humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist” (The New York Times) with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.

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