Understanding Kurt Vonnegut

by William Rodney Allen

Understanding Kurt Vonnegut is a critical analysis of Vonnegut's novels. After dealing with his early work in science fiction in the 1950s - Player Piano and The Sirens of Titan - this study pays special attention to Vonnegut's major phase in the 1960s, which consists of four extremely diverse but fully realized novels: Mother's Night; Cat's Cradle; God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Slaughterhouse-Five; the critical backlash that resulted after Vonnegut...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872497224
• ISBN13: 9780872497221
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.