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It is a firstperson account narrated by howard of his life prior, during and immediately following world war ii, which is the major. Publishers a note about mother night card and certificate of authenticity, which is also signed by vonnegut, are laid in. As an added bonus, when you purchase our audible modern vanguard production of kurt vonneguts book, youll also receive an exclusive jim atlas interview. The inscription reads for tom, yet another forest slain kurt vonnegut feb. Vonnegut, who spent part of world war ii in an underground meat locker while the devastating firebombing of dresden occurred aboveground an experience he would fictionalize in slaughterhouse five, legitimately had claims to his dark, comic vision. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 331 pages and is available in paperback format. In kurt vonnegut science fiction tropes altogether in mother night 1961. Mother night is vonneguts third novel, written well before he had attained bestseller status with slaughterhousefive. Home bio books news order bio books news order screenprints sculpture. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. In mother night kv is acting as the editor of a book, the confessions of howard campbell, jr.
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About kurt vonnegut kurt vonnegut museum and library. Most of the humor within the book comes from vonneguts use of situational irony. I have read a bookthank you for arguing, revised and updated edition. Shop for kurt vonnegut art from the worlds greatest living artists. Campbell is a selfstyled american nazi, and is writing his confession jailed in jerusalem as a war criminal.
Mother night is perhaps the darkest of kurt vonneguts novels in terms of its storyline and sense of humor. Mother night, a kurt vonnegut novel published and set in 1961, presents itself as a fictionalized memoir of howard w. To say that he was a writer is to say that the demands of art alone were enough to make him lie, and to lie without seeing any harm in it. In a career spanning over 50 years, vonnegut published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of nonfiction, with further collections being published after his death. Mother night, kurt vonnegut mother night is a novel by american author kurt vonnegut, first published in february 1962. In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all. Wed been apart so longid been dead so long, she said in english. Time mother night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. The main characters of this fiction, short stories story are. Campbell also appears briefly in vonneguts later novel slaughterhousefive.
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