TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vonnegut,Kurt
AU  - Offit,Sidney
AU  - Vonnegut,Kurt
AU  - Vonnegut,Kurt
AU  - Vonnegut,Kurt
TI  - Novels 1987-1997
T2  - Library of America
SN  - 1598534645
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - The Library of America
KW  - Vonnegut, Kurt
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Artists
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Satirical literature
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Science fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Bluebeard --; Hocus Pocus --; Timequake
N2  - ..."The final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation.  Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success.  Now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent.  In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling prison memoir by a Vietnam vet and disgraced academic, Vonnegut brings his indelible voice to a range of still-burning issues--free speech, racism, environmental calamity, deindustrialization, and globalization.  Timequake (1997), the author's last completed novel, is part science fiction yarn (starring perennial protagonist Kilgore Trout), part diary of the mid-1990s (starring the author himself).  The result is a perfect fusion of Vonnegut's two signature genres, the satirical fantasy and the personal essay, and a literary magician's fond farewell to his readers and his craft."--Jacket
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