- Published: 2 January 2014
- ISBN: 9780099583479
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $24.99
Fates Worse Than Death
An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s
- Published: 2 January 2014
- ISBN: 9780099583479
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $24.99
An American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions... One of the last of a generation of great American novelists of World War II
Los Angeles Times
Like listening to the monologue of an interesting man whose tongue has been loosened by just one glass of wine
Guardian
Fates Worse Than Death is honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart
New York Times
Vonnegut's sharp wit and intellect are tempered but not blunted by his honesty and humanity
Independent
A truly great work of moral philosophy
The Age
Fates Worse Than Death is the latest volume of his cunning, rambling, edgy sermonettes, his wry, moral bomblets chucked night after night from podium and pulpit into gatherings of shrinks and museologists, Anglicans, architects, MIT graduands and the like. Rumours that the old boy was losing his knack of drilling straight into the nerve of western complacency can, on the evidence of this marvellously tetchy wit, be discounted.
Observer