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Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut (Hardcover, 1997)
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Kurt Vonnegut has often pointed out the ridiculous ways our society has conducted itself. Now, as both a character in and a chronicler of a bizarre event at the millennium, Vonnegut manages to make some sense of life as he's lived it - and observed it - for more than seventy years. According to Vonnegut's alter ego, science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on February 13, 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdriest and most hollow decades. In 1996, dead centre of the 'rerun', Vonnegut is wrestling again with Timequake I, a book he couldn't write the first time and won't be able to now. As he struggles, he addrresses, with his trademark wicked wit, the relationship between memory and deja-vu, humanism, suicide, the Great Depression and World War Two as the last generational character builders, the loss of American eloquence, the obsolescent thrill of reading books, and what 'extended family' really means.Product Identifiers
PublisherVintage Publishing
ISBN-139780224036405
eBay Product ID (ePID)90603143
Product Key Features
Publication Year1997
TopicBooks
Book TitleTimequake
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height234 mm
Item Weight440 g
Item Width153 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorKurt Vonnegut
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- 20 Aug, 2019
Genius.
One of the few authors who's works I reread every few years and enjoy them in different ways. I started reading his books whilst in my teens and am now in my fifties.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
