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November 11, 1922 april 11, 2007 was an american writer. It is a collection of interlinked, seemingly rambling shortessays which can be read individually or as a whole there are some delightful jokes that are set up in some chapters and completed in others. A brief biography of kurt vonnegut by william rodney allen. The extremely short essays that make up this book deal with topics ranging from the importance of humor, to problems with modern technology, to vonneguts opinions on the differences between men and women. A man without a country chinese edition by kurt vonnegut. A parallel failure, as he himself recognized, occurred with the late mark twain who, vonnegut observes in his 2007 collection a man without a country, also held the awfulness of life at bay. A memoir of life in george w bush s america is an essay collection published in 2005 by the author kurt vonnegut.
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