Kurt Vonnegutwas a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention inThe Sirens of Titanin 1959 and established him, in the words ofThe New York Times, as ""a true artist"" with the publication ofCat's Cradlein 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, ""one of the best living American writers."" Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
This is the indispensible Vonnegut. --San Francisco Chronicle Wry and trenchant . . . highly entertaining. --The New York Times Book Review His funniest book since Breakfast of Champions . . . There are nuggets of Vonnegutian wisdom throughout. --Newsweek Timequake is a novel by, and starring, Kurt Vonnegut . . . What Vonnegut does, which no one can do better, is give a big postmodern shrug . . . You've got to love him. --The Washington Post Book World Humorous, sardonic . . . Timequake makes for irresistible reading that's loaded with more important truths than it lets on . . . Moralizing has never been funnier. --Chicago Sun-Times Vonnegut is at his best. --Atlanta Journal & Constitution