Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons

Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons

This collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s most rare and unexamined essays, speeches, fiction, and interviews offers fascinating insight into the mind of the iconic science fiction author and intellectual. With cutting wit, fierce conviction, and surprising empathy, Vonnegut explores a diverse range of topics including society, politics, sex, literature, and mortality. Fans who believe they’ve read all of Vonnegut’s work will be delighted to find the author speaking frankly about timely and relevant new topics—with an amusing yet insightful style that’s instantly recognizable.<br /><br /><h2>About the Author</h2><br />Kurt Vonnegut is a unique voice in the American canon—a writer whose books are hard to categorize, but that might be called science fiction, redolent with cutting satire and dark humor. During his lifetime, Vonnegut was also an important leftist intellectual, well known for his humanist perspective. Some of his most famous works include <i>Slaughterhouse-Five</i>, <i>Breakfast of Champions</i>, and <i>Cat’s Cradle</i>. <br /><br />Vonnegut was born in 1922 in Indianapolis, and studied at the University of Chicago and the University of Tennessee. In the Second World War, he was present during the bombing of Dresden—and later became a German prisoner of war. This experience provided inspiration for his most successful and influential novel, <i>Slaughterhouse-Five</i>.<br />