The breakfast of champions

Like most science fiction writers, Trout probably had no idea about science... When prolific but obscure science fiction writer Kilgore Trout accepts an honorary invitation to participate in the Midland City Arts Festival, he senses that his journey will bring him face to face with the ,what he fears and at the same time longs for, contact with the public and perhaps recognition. In no way, however, can he imagine what will happen when Dwayne Hoover, the town's wealthy car dealer, decides to take his stories seriously. This American province will be plunged into a crescendo of symbolic and real violence, giving Vonnegut the opportunity to unleash his venomous satire not only on time, inequality, gender and racial discrimination in a country full of contradictions, but also on destruction. of the Earth. In an intelligent play with the literal meaning of each word, he composes an impressive matrix of the problems of our time, at their origin. Everything is ambiguous and called into question in a world without ballast or morality – from Interstate Highway signs to the conventions of literary narrative. A book in which, with narrative simplicity, science fiction, memoirs, fairy tales and parables, farce are combined. Kurt Vonnegut delivers a sweeping critique of American society in a masterly manner – thanks to his wild imagination and humor – yet with a poignant awareness of human vulnerability. "Kurt Vonnegut is unique. A writer who maps our landscapes, who names for our sake what we also know." Doris Lessing, The New York Times Book Review "This is a prophet of doom who laughs nonstop." The New York Times "The best black humor we've ever read... We laugh in self-defense." The Atlantic Monthly "Outrageous, witty, provocative, exciting, alive, invigorating." Spectator "Quirky, fast and inventive." Daily Telegraph

Pages: 336
Height (cm) & Width (cm): 21 X 14