Name: Bluebeard - Kurt Vonnegut
Brand: Kurt Vonnegut
Price: 103.68 RON
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Broad humor and bitter irony collide in Vonnegut's fictional biography of aging artist Rabo Karabekian--first introduced in Breakfast of Champions--who wants only to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked in his potato barn. A joyous, soaring fiction.--Atlanta Journal and Constitution. nRanks with Vonnegut's best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction.--The Atlanta Journal and Constitution nBroad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story--and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves. n nPraise for Bluebeard n nVonnegut is at his edifying best.--The Philadelphia Inquirer n nThe quicksilver mind of Vonnegut is at it again. . . . He displays all his talents--satire, irony, ridicule, slapstick, and even a shaggy dog story of epic proportions.--The Cincinnati Post n n Kurt Vonnegut is] a voice you can trust to keep poking holes in the social fabric.--San Francisco Chronicle n nIt has the qualities of classic Bosch and Slaughterhouse Vonnegut. . . . Bluebeard is uncommonly feisty.--USA Today n nIs Bluebeard good? Yes . . . This is vintage Vonnegut--good wine from his best grapes.--The Detroit News n nA joyride . . . V