Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and

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Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels

In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of KurtÂ Vonnegut's best-known works--his fourteen novels starting with Player PianoÂ (1952) all the way to an epilogueÂ on his last book, A Man Without a Country (2005)--to illustrate the quintessential American writer's profoundÂ engagement with the "American Dream" in its various forms.

Sumner gives us a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the traditional valuesÂ associated with the American Dream: grandiose ambition, unbridled material success, rugged individualism,Â and "winners" over "losers." Instead of a celebration of these values, we read and share Vonnegut's outrage,Â his brokenhearted empathy for those who struggle under the ethos of survival-of-the-fittest in the frontierÂ mentality--something he once memorably described as "an impossibly tough-minded experiment in loneliness."

Heroic and tragic, Vonnegut's novels reflect the pain of his own life's experiences, relieved by small acts ofÂ kindness, friendship, and love that exemplify another way of living, another sort of human utopia, anÂ alternative American Dream, and the reason we always return to his books.
Country USA
Brand Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer Seven Stories Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color White
ReleaseDate 2012-12-04
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781609804305

Country	USA
Brand	Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer	Seven Stories Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2012-12-04
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781609804305

Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels

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