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Unstuck in Time

By Sumner, Gregory D.

Unstuck in Time Contemporary literature

Unstuck in Time

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In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of Kurt Vonnegut's best known works, his fourteen novels starting with Player Piano (1952) all the way to an epilogue on his last book, A Man Without a Country (2005), to illustrate the quintessential American writer's profound engagement with the "American Dream" in its various forms. Sumner gives us a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the traditional values associated with the American Dream: grandiose ambition, unbridled material success, rugged individualism, and "winners" over "losers." Instead of a celebration of these values, we read and share Vonnegut's outrage, his brokenhearted empathy for those who struggle under the ethos of survival-of-the-fittest in the frontier mentality—something he once memorably described as "an impossibly tough-minded experiment in loneliness." Heroic and tragic, Vonnegut's novels reflect the pain of his own life's experiences, relieved by small acts of kindness, friendship, and love that exemplify another way of living, another sort of human utopia, an alternative American Dream, and the reason we always return to his books.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2011-11-08
Publication Date:
2011-11-08
Publisher:
Seven Stories Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1609803493
ISBN13:
9781609803490
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
589 g
Height:
164 cm
Width:
237 cm
Thickness:
37 cm
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