New York Times Bestseller
New York Times Bestseller • Vonnegut at his most personal and unfiltered. These intimate, whimsically illustrated essays reveal the brilliant mind behind the masterpieces—funny, wise, and utterly irreplaceable. Like sitting down with an old friend who happens to be one of America’s great literary voices.
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New York Times Bestseller • In this penetrating and laugh-out-loud funny collection, Kurt Vonnegut holds forth on life, art, politics, and the state of America’s soul with the wisdom and wit that made him one of the great literary voices of our time.
A Man Without a Country is Vonnegut at his most personal and unfiltered. From his coming of age in America to his formative war experiences to his life as an artist, these intimate essays and reflections reveal the man behind the masterpieces. Whimsically illustrated by Vonnegut himself, this volume brims with the full scope of his passions, contradictions, and humanity.
Like his literary ancestor Mark Twain, Vonnegut’s crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. He moves seamlessly between joy and sorrow, hope and despair, capturing the complexity of the human condition with stunning simplicity. Whether he’s reflecting on the environment, technology, war, or the simple pleasure of a well-made sentence, his voice remains unmistakable—tender, incisive, and brimming with an obstinate, unfashionable humanism.
This is as close as Vonnegut ever came to a memoir, and fans will linger on every word. Reading it feels like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an old friend who happens to be one of the most brilliant minds in American letters. For anyone who has lived with Vonnegut in their imagination, this is what he’s like in person: funny, wise, contradictory, and utterly irreplaceable.
A Man Without a Country is vintage Vonnegut—a collection of his trademark wit and wisdom that reads like a conversation with an old friend. These essays are funny, touching, and full of the humane skepticism that made him a literary icon.
Vonnegut at his best: funny, cranky, and heartbreaking.
Vonnegut uses humor as a weapon...A Man Without a Country mixes his trademark sardonic humor with a more overt political commentary than he's indulged in before.
These ruminations are filled with Vonnegut's unique brand of wisdom, and his voice comes through clearly.
Vonnegut proves that his wry, dark humor and acute social criticism are as sharp as ever.
| Weight | 0.29 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.14 × 0.42 × 7.98 in |
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| Subject | Biography & Autobiography, Essays, Letters, Literary Collections, Literary Figures |
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