01606 a2200337 4500 0367346664 20250317100405.0 250312042021GB eng 9780367346669 Taylor & Francis GBP 32.99 BB 01 eng DSK thema DSBH thema DSA thema 1KB bisac DSK bic DSBH bic DSA bic 1KB bisac LIT024050 bisac LIT000000 bisac FIC032000 bisac 813.54 bisac Jerome Klinkowitz Kurt Vonnegut 1 Oxford Routledge 20211001 98 p Drawing on his experiences as a young man in the Great Depression and the Second World War, Kurt Vonnegut created a new style of fiction responsive to the post-war world and unique in its appeal to both popular audiences and avant-garde critics. His work was profoundly innovative and yet perfectly lucid. In this comprehensive introductory study, originally published in 1982, Jerome Klinkowitz traces Vonnegut’s influences within the American middle class, his early efforts as a short-story writer for magazines in the 1960s and his startling and unprecedented success as a bestselling experimental novelist with Slaughterhouse-Five . His self-consciously moral posture led to readers throughout the world accepting him as their spokesman for humane values, a role which Klinkowitz considers within the context of his work. 1683 1683