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Armageddon in Retrospect
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  • Published: 1 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099524083
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $32.99

Armageddon in Retrospect

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The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death-a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's tendency toward violence.

First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's tendency towards violence. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humour, the pieces range from a visceral non-fiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden - to a painfully funny short story about three soldiers and their fantasies of the perfect meal.
  • Published: 1 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780099524083
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Kurt Vonnegut

Born in 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, KURT VONNEGUT was one of the few grandmasters of modern American letters. Called by the New York Times “the counterculture’s novelist,” his works guided a generation through the miasma of war and greed that was life in the U.S. in second half of the 20th century. After a stints as a soldier, anthropology PhD candidate, technical writer for General Electric, and salesman at a Saab dealership, Vonnegut rose to prominence with the publication ofCat’s Cradle in 1963. Several modern classics, including Slaughterhouse-Five, soon followed. Never quite embraced by the stodgier arbiters of literary taste, Vonnegut was nonetheless beloved by millions of readers throughout the world. “Given who and what I am,” he once said, “it has been presumptuous of me to write so well.” Kurt Vonnegut died in New York in 2007.
portrait photo of Kurt Vonnegut

Also by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse 5
Cat's Cradle: Popular Penguins
Mother Night
Breakfast of Champions
Slaughterhouse-Five Deluxe Edition
Monkey Business
Slaughterhouse-Five
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Praise for Armageddon in Retrospect

Reads like a madcap Montaigne on acid

Metro

The most entertaining of American writers, almost a new Mark Twain...his words can travel on through time

Daily Mail

The wittiest man since Groucho Marx and the wisest since Karl Marx

The Times

(Vonnegut) was a splendid preacher of American populism at its most radical...always funny and sometimes refreshingly vulgar

Independent

Imbued with the innocence, empathy, and kindness that always seemed central to Vonnegut's sensibility

Lionel Shriver, Financial Times

The best of these unpublished pieces are as mad, bitter, hilarious and, in their healthy disrespect not only for 'Get Tough America' but for humanity in general, as startlingly timely as the best of his output

Daily Telegraph

Dark, funny and disturbing

London Review of Books

You should buy this book

Spectator