Breakfast of champions
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him.
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- Full title :Breakfast of champions / by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ; with drawings by the author.
Summary
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him.
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- Publication Date:1973.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cape
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1973.
Notes
Also published, New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1973.
The Physical Object
- Description:[8], 296 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0224008889, 9780224008884, 9780385334204, 0385334206
- oclc:ocm16232901
- LC Classification:PS3572.O5
- Dewey Decimal:813.54
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