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God bless you, mr. rosewater / Kurt Vonnegut.
Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) presents Eliot Rosewater, an itinerant, semi-crazed millionaire wandering the country in search of heritage and philanthropic outcome, introducing the science fiction writer Kilgore Trout to the world and Vonnegut to the collegiate audience which would soon make him a cult writer.Trout, modeled according to Vonnegut on the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon (with whom Vonnegut had an occasional relationship) is a desperate, impoverished but visionary hack writer who functions for Eliot Rosewater as both conscience and horrid example. Rosewater, seeking to put his inheritance to some meaningful use (his father was an entrepreneur), tries to do good within the context of almost illimitable cynicism and corruption.It is in this novel that Rosewater wanders into a science fiction conference-an actual annual event in Milford,...
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- ISBN: 9780795319082 (electronic bk)
- ISBN: 9780795319075 (electronic bk)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2012.
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Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : RosettaBooks, 2012. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 788 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 250 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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