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Kurt Vonnegut: The Making of a Writer

Af: Dan Wakefield Engelsk Paperback

Kurt Vonnegut: The Making of a Writer

Af: Dan Wakefield Engelsk Paperback
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Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat''s Cradle, and many other brilliant novels and short stories, is one of our greatest American writers, often using science fiction, humor, and a humanist view of society, religion, politics, and human nature in his writing to show us the absurdity and the loveliness of life on earth. Born in 1922, Vonnegut''s life was full of great fortune and great despair: his family was wealthy, but lost everyting in the market crash of 1929; he was the youngest son in a loving family, until his mother fell into a depression and committed suicide; he joined the army in WWII with great pride for our country, but experienced instead a world of destruction and horror. These and many others were the experiences that made him a writer. But how did he channel the highs and lows of his life into great writing? Dan Wakefield, a friend and mentee of Vonnegut''s for decades and a fellow Hoosier, distills the facts including Kurt''s novels, essays, interviews, letters and personal experiences, into a beautiful telling of the making of a writer. Using the second person ''You,'' it is as though Wakefield is a friend walking through Kurt''s life alongside him, a guide for readers to his extraordinary life. Here is an American life, a burgeoning artist''s life to inspire anyone who has read Vonnegut''s work or who themselves aspire to write.
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Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat''s Cradle, and many other brilliant novels and short stories, is one of our greatest American writers, often using science fiction, humor, and a humanist view of society, religion, politics, and human nature in his writing to show us the absurdity and the loveliness of life on earth. Born in 1922, Vonnegut''s life was full of great fortune and great despair: his family was wealthy, but lost everyting in the market crash of 1929; he was the youngest son in a loving family, until his mother fell into a depression and committed suicide; he joined the army in WWII with great pride for our country, but experienced instead a world of destruction and horror. These and many others were the experiences that made him a writer. But how did he channel the highs and lows of his life into great writing? Dan Wakefield, a friend and mentee of Vonnegut''s for decades and a fellow Hoosier, distills the facts including Kurt''s novels, essays, interviews, letters and personal experiences, into a beautiful telling of the making of a writer. Using the second person ''You,'' it is as though Wakefield is a friend walking through Kurt''s life alongside him, a guide for readers to his extraordinary life. Here is an American life, a burgeoning artist''s life to inspire anyone who has read Vonnegut''s work or who themselves aspire to write.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9781644214046
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1644214040
Udg. Dato: 3 dec 2024
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 203mm
Højde: 140mm
Forlag: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Oplagsdato: 3 dec 2024
Forfatter(e): Dan Wakefield
Forfatter(e) Dan Wakefield


Kategori Faglitteratur for børn & unge


ISBN-13 9781644214046


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 304


Udgave


Længde 25mm


Bredde 203mm


Højde 140mm


Udg. Dato 3 dec 2024


Oplagsdato 3 dec 2024


Forlag Seven Stories Press,U.S.

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