Unstuck in Time A Journey Through Kurt Vonneguts Life and Novels by Gregory D. Sumner

Seven Stories Press. Paperback. New. Paperback. 368 pages. Dimensions: 8.9in. x 6.0in. x 1.2in.In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of KurtVonneguts best-known works--his fourteen novels starting with Player Piano(1952) all the way to an epilogueon his last book, A Man Without a Country (2005)--to illustrate the quintessential American writers profoundengagement with the American Dream in its various forms. Sumner gives us a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the traditional valuesassociated with the American Dream: grandiose ambition, unbridled material success, rugged individualism, and winners over losers. Instead of a celebration of these values, we read and share Vonneguts outrage, his brokenhearted empathy for those who struggle under the ethos of survival-of-the-fittest in the frontiermentality--something he once memorably described as an impossibly tough-minded experiment in loneliness. Heroic and tragic, Vonneguts novels reflect the pain of his own lifes experiences, relieved by small acts ofkindness, friendship, and love that exemplify another way of living, another sort of human utopia, analternative American Dream, and the reason we always return to his books. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN, Momence,IL, Commerce,GA.