The Vonnegut Statement
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After twenty years of careful preparation as a writer, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. has emerged as a major American novelist whose books have sold in the millions. This volume contains fourteen original essays by various academic critics and novelists on all facets of Vonnegut's life and work which, taken together, offer the most complete and coherent picture of the writer's career. The book deals with Vonnegut as a public personage as well as a literary figure and assesses his literary achievement. Contributors include Dan Wakefield, Robert Scholes, Joe David Bellamy, James Mellard, Jess Ritter, and other well-known writers and critics. Jerome Klinkowitz has published essays on Hawthorne, Howells, Faulkner, and on numerous contemporary novelists. He teaches at the University of Northern Iowa. John Somer is the author of several textbooks on literature and composition, and is now preparing a book-length study of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. He is an assistant professor at Kansas State College. -- Provided by publisher
Keywords
Vonnegut, Kurt;
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9780385290944
Publication Date
1973
Publisher
Delacorte Press
City
New York, NY
Department
Department of Languages and Literatures
Object Description
xvii, 286 pages ; 21 cm
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Klinkowitz, Jerome and Somer, John L., "The Vonnegut Statement" (1973). Faculty Book Gallery. 342.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/342
