[]
Breakfast of Champions
  • Published: 3 July 1992
  • ISBN: 9780099842606
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.99

Breakfast of Champions

Formats & editions
Paperback
3 July 1992
EBook
1 July 2010
Buy from…
Amazon Booktopia Dymocks QBD Readings Your Bookstore Abbeys Boomerang Find local retailers Find local retailers Collins Gleebooks Harry Hartog Kinokuniya Robinsons The Nile Mighty Ape

Another iconic title from the brilliant space-wanderer Kurt Vonnegut - rejacketed in a new, witty series style

Discover Vonnegurt’s funny absurdist novel about the human condition.

‘Outrageous, witty, thought-provoking, unputdownable, scintillating, invigorating, ennobling, enlightening and masterly’ Spectator

In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.

‘Vonnegut explains everything from an apple to the pyramids…weird, fast and inventive’ Daily Telegraph
  • Published: 3 July 1992
  • ISBN: 9780099842606
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

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
Player Piano
Slaughterhouse-Five Deluxe Edition
Monkey Business
Slaughterhouse-Five
Love, Kurt
See all

Praise for Breakfast of Champions

Vonnegut performs considerable complex magic... Fresh, funny, outrageous...he very nearly levitates

New York Times

A great deal of wit and playfulness...an entire universe of disorder is distilled

Guardian

Outrageous, witty, thought-provoking, unputdownable, scintillating, invigorating, ennobling, enlightening and masterly

Spectator

Brilliant... It seems, at times, as if Voltaire has returned to satirise the horrors of plastic, disposable America

Sunday Times

He’s just so fucking amazing. Everyone should read Vonnegut.

Tim Minchin