Name: Breakfast of Champions
ISBN: 9780385334204

At a Glance

Why This Clicks

Comedy with Teeth

Vonnegut’s unruly satire makes America’s familiar troubles feel strange, funny, and hard to ignore.

Come here for

A playful, edgy look at war, sex, racism, politics, and pollution
Satire that finds comedy in uncomfortable truths

Expect

A sustained narrative with a free-wheeling comic edge
Sharp complaints about America, rendered both hateful and lovable

Book Details

Authors: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: May 11, 1999
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: American Lit Crit · 20th-Century American Fiction
Reading lane: American Lit Crit

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Publisher Categories

Funny Fiction
Literary Fiction
Satire

About This Book

“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 remin...

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“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