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Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
Wampeters Foma and Granfalloons
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
A collection of essays, articles, and stories by the prominent 20th century American author as he attempts "to speak directly and truthfully about real life". — Contents: — "Science Fiction", — "Brief Encounters on the Inland Waterway", — "Hello, Star Vega", — "Teaching the Unteachable", — "Yes, We Have No Nirvanas", — "Fortitude", — "There's a Maniac L...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780440185338
ISBN-10: 0440185335
Publication Date: 9/15/1979
Pages: 320
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4.1 stars, based on 12 ratings
Publisher: Dell
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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[from the back cover--St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
"A great cosmic comedian and rattler of human skeletons, an idealist disguided as a pesssimist...has written a book filled with madness and truth and absurdity and self-revelation!"
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Vonnegut is always witty and funny, as he is in this book. But in 'Monkey House' he addresses some of the absurdity of modern life in America in a more head-on fashion than his fiction books.


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