Timequake

Kurt Vonnegut (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

1998
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-927536-7 (ISBN)

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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 a moment when the universe suffers a crisis of consience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world ten years of deja vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdriest and most hollow decades. In 1996, dead centre of the 're-run' Vonnegut is wrestling again with Timequake I, a book he couldn't write the first time and won't be able to now. As he struggles, he addresses, with his trademark wicked wit, the relationship between memory and deja vu, humanism, sucicide, the Great Depression and World War Two as the last generational character builders, the loss of American eloquence, the obsolescent thrill of reading books, and what 'extended family' really means.

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of war in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.8.1998
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	111 x 178 mm
Gewicht	135 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-09-927536-8 / 0099275368
ISBN-13	978-0-09-927536-7 / 9780099275367
Zustand	Neuware