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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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1965
2004
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14 Chapters
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Copyright © 1965 by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
For Alvin Davis, the telepath,
the hoodlums' friend
A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.
May contain spoilers
"And tell them," he began again, "to be fruitful and multiply."
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Added: 06-Jul-2004
Last Updated: 19-Jul-2015

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 01-Oct-1973
Dell Publishing Company
Paperback
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Oct-1973
Format:
Paperback
Cover Price:
$1.25
Pages*:
190
Read:
Once
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Internal ID:
434
ISBN:
044002929
Printing:
19
Country:
United States
Language:
English
God bless you, Mr. Rosewater

Eliot Rosewater, drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation is the hero of this darkly-humored comic masterpiece.  In the stringently irrelevant story of a man filled with total love for humanity, and tormented by a maddeningly sane vision of society, the author has created a wild, brilliant, etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, waste and folly of modern man.  Once again Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., has written a novel that stands head, heart and funnybone above all others on the scene today.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

For many years Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., has been a hero of underground literature in America.  Only recently, however, has the general public become aware on his unique genius.  His is a far-out imagination which always winds up right on target, an irresistible humor with a superb cutting edge, a storytelling talent that makes reading a pleasure as well as a mind-jolting experience.  He is, as Graham Green has declared, "one of the best living American writers."
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Notes and Comments:
I bought this about the same time I got Cat's Cradle.  I heard that it had the first appearance of Kilgore Trout and, having read Breakfast of Champions, I had to have it.  Never got around to reading it until July 2004 after I finished Companion Piece, the Telos Doctor Who Novella.
 01-Oct-1998
Delta
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Date Issued:
01-Oct-1998
Pages*:
275
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Internal ID:
433
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-385-33347-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-385-33347-4
Country:
United States
Language:
English
"VONNEGUT IS GEORGE ORWELL, DR. CALIGARI AND FLASH GORDON COMPOUNDED INTO ONE WRITER... A ZANY BUT MORAL MAD SCIENTIST."  - Time

KURT VONNEGUT
is a master of contrmporary American literature.  His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist"* with Cat's Cradle in 1963.  He is, as Graham Green has declared, "one of the best living American writers."

GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER
is a comic masterpience.  Eliot Rosewater, drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature... with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout.  The result is Vonnegut's funniest satire, and etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.

"A BRILLIANTLY FUNNY SATIRE ON AMOST EVERYTHING."
- Conrad Aiken

* The New York Times
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Dell Publishing Company
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 Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Birth: 11 Nov 1922 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Death: 11 Apr 2007 New York, New York, USA

Notes:
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana.  He attended high school at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis at which he had his first experience in writing.  He was a writer and editor for the Shortridge Daily Echo, the first high school daily newspaper in the country.

After graduating in 1940, Vonnegut went Cornell University.  Vonnegut began his college career as a chemistry and biology major.  His older brother Bernard would later discover cloud seeding.  Vonnegut excelled as a columnist and editor for the Cornell Daily Sun when.  In 1943 when he was about to be asked to leave Cornell because of poor grades, he enlisting in the army.

On May 14, 1944, Kurt Vonnegut's mother committed suicide.  His father became a hermit content to be in his own little world.  He died on October 1, 1957.

Vonnegut became a prisoner of war in Germany on December 14, 1944, after being captured in the Battle of the Bulge.  He was sent to Dresden, an city that produced nothing war related and was supposedly off-limits to allied bombing.  On February 13, 1945 allied forces bombed Dresden and killed around 135,000 civilians.  Vonnegut and other POW's were able to survive by waiting in the cellars of their quarters.

On September 1, 1945, Vonnegut married Jane Cox.  He spent the next two years at the University of Chicago as a graduate student.  He worked for the Chicago City News Bureau while there.  His master's thesis was rejected and he moved to New York.  There he worked  as a publicist for General Electric.  On February 11, 1950, Vonnegut's published his first short story, "Report on the Barnhouse Effect."  And soon after he was able to quit his job and move his family to Massachusetts.

He published his first novel in 1952 entitled Player Piano.  By 1959, his 41-year-old sister died from cancer just hours after her husband had died in a train accident.  Vonnegut adopted three of Alice's four children.

Vonnegut published his sixth novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, in 1968 detailing his time in Dresden from the viewpoint of Billy Pilgrim.

He published Breakfast of Champions in 1973 and Slapstick 1976, which was followed by Jailbird in 1979.

He was severely injured in a fire on January 30, 2000 in New York City.

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