Kurt Vonnegut's America - by Jerome Klinkowitz (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Kurt Vonnegut's America shows us that Vonnegut achieved greatness by passing his own test--opening the eyes of his audience to help them better understand their roles and possibilities in the common culture they both shared and crafted.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Kurt Vonnegut's death in 2007 marked the passing of a major force in American life and letters. Jerome Klinkowitz, one of the earliest and most prolific authorities on Vonnegut, examines the long dialogue between the author and American culture--a conversation that produced fourteen novels and hundreds of short stories and essays. <i>Kurt Vonnegut's America</i> integrates discussion of the fiction, essays, and lectures with personal exchanges and biographical sketches to map the complex symbiotic relationship between Vonnegut's work and the cultural context from which it emerged--and which it in turn helped shape. </p><p>Following an introduction characterizing Vonnegut as Klinkowitz came to know him over the course of their friendship, this study charts the impact of Vonnegut on American society and of that society on Vonnegut for more than a half-century to illustrate how each informed the other. Among his artistic peers, Vonnegut was uniquely gifted at anticipating and articulating the changing course of American culture. <i>Kurt Vonnegut's America</i> shows us that Vonnegut achieved greatness by passing his own test--opening the eyes of his audience to help them better understand their roles and possibilities in the common culture they both shared and crafted.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Written by Vonnegut's friend and chief advocate in the academe, a definitive look at the writer's and nation's mutual influence on each other</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>No matter how familiar you are with the great author's canon, <i>Kurt Vonnegut's America</i> will have you pulling his books off the shelf again, eager to reread them, armed with new insights that could be provided only by the country's leading Vonnegut scholar. Here Klinkowitz provides a critical context for Vonnegut's output that is informed not only by his biography, but his reaction to, and shaping of, an ever-evolving American culture.</p>--Robert Weide, director of Kurt Vonnegut: American Made and screenwriter of <i>Mother Night</i><br><br><p>While writing from the perspective of a friend as well as a critic, Klinkowitz makes clear that Vonnegut never took his finger off the American pulse. He became more direct and hyperbolic in his formulations but, as Klinkowitz ably demonstrates, never strayed far from his oft-repeated ethos of artists as the canaries in the coalmine by reminding Americans of our highest ideals and taking us to task for our failures.</p>-- "Bloomsbury Review"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>A pioneer in Vonnegut studies, <b>Jerome Klinkowitz</b> is the author of more than forty books, including novels, collections of short stories, studies of literature, philosophy, art, music, sports, and air combat narratives. He is a professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa.</p>
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