Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

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BREAKFAST OF

CHAMPIONS

With Drawings By The Author

KURT VONNEGUT

Breakfast of Champions

RosettaBooks, LLC

manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief

quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

For information address Editor@RosettaBooks.com

First electronic edition published 2000 by RosettaBooks LLC, New York.

ISBN 0-7953-0241-X

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Contents
eForeword
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

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eForeword

“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane” — so

reads the epitaph for Kilgore Trout, who is one of several alter egos of

the author Kurt Vonnegut in his explosively funny and ironic 1973 novel

Breakfast of Champions. The world Vonnegut explores is not a healthy

one — as the title suggests, it is the United States of America in the age

of Vietnam, Nixon and the Silent Majority — but it is desperately trying

to seem so. An obscure science fiction writer takes a wild road trip to

the middle of the Midwest, where his fate becomes intertwined with that

of a successful car dealer who is slowly going mad. Vonnegut takes

this opportunity to question a number of assumptions, including the very

nature of the novel he is writing. A tour de force of imagination and

scathing insight, Breakfast of Champions is one of the most discussed

and widely read American novels of the late 20th century.

The American novelist Kurt Vonnegut (b. 1922) occupies an unusual but

enduring place in modern American fiction, that of the prolific, critically

acclaimed writer whose work has also enjoyed enormous popularity and

inspired a virtual cult following. Vonnegut’s first work appeared in the

early 1950s, and few writers have captured the modern age as

consistently and as imaginatively as he has. Often blending satire with

science fiction, Vonnegut’s writing reflects an acute sense of the ironies in

modern American life. Nowhere is his richly ambivalent feeling about the

contemporary American scene more brilliantly realized than in Breakfast

of Champions , published just after Vonnegut’s 50th birthday, ending a

four-year hiatus that followed appearance of Slaughterhouse Five.

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Slaughterhouse Five, CatÕs Cradle, The Sirens of Titan and Player Piano.

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