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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
Wampeters Foma Granfalloons
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Wampeters - an object around which the lives of otherwise unrelated people revolve, e.g., the Holy Grail — Foma - Harmless, comforting untruths, e.g., "Prosperity is just around the corner." — Granfalloons - A proud and meaningless association of human beings, e.g., The Veterans of Future Wars — Only Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. would have titled a book Wamp...  more »
ISBN: 12910
Pages: 285
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Publisher: Dell
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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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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