Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye, Blue Monday.
by Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Synopsis
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast. " One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer and Burger Chef franchise owner who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth.
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 134681
- Title
- Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye, Blue Monday.
- Author
- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Delacorte Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Breakfast of Champions Signed First Edition, Kurt Vonnegut Signed First Edition
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