Sixty years of Vonnegut's life seen through his brilliant, entertaining letters
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied
biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he
served in Europe and, as a prisoner of was in Germany, witnessed
the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which
inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He is the author of
thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five
non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.
Dan Wakefield first befriended Kurt Vonnegut in 1963. Like
Vonnegut, he was born and raised in Indianapolis. He is a novelist
and screenwriter whose books include the bestselling Going All the
Way and the memoir New York in the Fifties.
The collected letters of Kurt Vonnegut include some remarkable
examples of epistolary eloquence… it is the tender letters to his
youngest daughter, Nanette, that are the jewel of this
collection
*Sunday Telegraph Seven*
One closes this volume...full of gratitude for Dan Wakefield...the
editor of this labour of love that gives us one more reason to love
Kurt Vonnegut
*The Times*
This collection is perhaps the best insight into the everyday
needles of a prolific author you could hope to read
*Sunday Times*
Splendidly assembled and edited by Dan Wakefield . . . [Vonnegut’s]
familiar, funny, cranky, acute voice . . . is chronicling his life
in real time.
*New York Times Book Review*
Droll and self-deprecating letters offer intriguing insights into
Vonnegut’s life
*Sunday Times*
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