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Zusatztext According to Vonnegut's alter ego! science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout!a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffersa crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991!making everyone in the world endure ten years of 'deja vu' and a total loss of free will - not to mention relivingevery nanosecond of one of the tawdriest and most hollow decades. In 1996!dead centre of the 're-run' Vonnegut is wrestling again with TimequakeI! a book he couldn't write the first time and won't be able to now. Ashe struggles! he addresses! with his trademark wicked wit! the relationshipbetween memory and deja vu! humanism! suicide! the Great Depression andWorld War Two as the last generational character builders! the loss ofAmerican eloquence! the obsolescent thrill of reading books! and what 'extended family' reallymeans. Informationen zum Autor Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five . After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel Player Piano (1952) achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'. His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007. Klappentext In what is supposedly his final book, Kurt Vonnegut addresses a wide range of subjects with a combination of wicked wit and boundless imagination, looking at suicide, memory, "deja vu", the Great Depression, W.W.II and the loss of American eloquence. "A beautifully fastidious writer, utterly original and self-made, capable of moving from irony to lament within a sentence." "The Guardian". Zusammenfassung It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will – not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades....
