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God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
  • Published: 3 November 1992
  • ISBN: 9780099842804
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $24.99

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

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The story of a man who reacts to past tragedy, family greed and fabulous wealth by promptly going insane

With the satirical eye of his science fiction author alter ego Kilgore Trout, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five delivers a classic of modern American literature.

Eliot Rosewater, President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation and volunteer firefighter, is tortured by an inheritance he doesn’t feel that he deserves. After (unfortunately) developing a social conscience, he sets out on a drunken tour of America, unravelling a little more at every stop until his path crosses with the science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout.

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is one of Kurt Vonnegut’s funniest satires, about the pleasures, pains and perversions of people and money, the obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness of a nation.
  • Published: 3 November 1992
  • ISBN: 9780099842804
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $24.99
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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.
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Also by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse 5
Cat's Cradle: Popular Penguins
Breakfast of Champions
Mother Night
Welcome to the Monkey House
Slaughterhouse-Five Deluxe Edition
Monkey Business
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Praise for God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

Vonnegut faces up to the less glamorous phenomenon of human mediocrity in this sharp, hilarious, boundlessly humane story. It taught me about compassion and a few things about writing good dialogue

Michel Faber, Glasgow Herald

Rumbustious stuff... There may be greater novelists than Vonnegut, but there can be a few, if any, with as much good humour and generosity

Guardian

Filled with irony and black humour and a woozy bonhomie

Sunday Times

Wild hilarity

Sunday Telegraph

Extremely funny

Observer