Breakfast of Champions
A Novel
Random House Publishing Group · Print & ebook · May 11, 1999
“Marvelous . . .
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- Who it’s for
- Vonnegut’s unruly satire makes America’s familiar troubles feel strange, funny, and hard to ignore.
- Themes
- American social satire, Racism, Pollution
- Genres
- Satire, Funny Fiction, Literary Fiction
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“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth.
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What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. “Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers Weekly
Comedy with Teeth
Vonnegut’s unruly satire makes America’s familiar troubles feel strange, funny, and hard to ignore.
Come here for
- A playful, edgy look at war, sex, racism, politics, and pollution
- Satire that finds comedy in uncomfortable truths
Expect
- A sustained narrative with a free-wheeling comic edge
- Sharp complaints about America, rendered both hateful and lovable
Where it sits
| Satire | 98% |
|---|---|
| Literary Fiction | 67% |
| Funny Fiction | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Funny Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Satire
- Authors
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- May 11, 1999
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- American social satire · Racism · Pollution
- Reading lane
- Funny Fiction