PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
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.
Vonnegut performs considerable complex magic... Fresh, funny, outrageous...he very nearly levitates New York Times A great deal of wit and playfulness...an entire universe of disorder is distilled Guardian Outrageous, witty, thought-provoking, unputdownable, scintillating, invigorating, ennobling, enlightening and masterly Spectator Brilliant... It seems, at times, as if Voltaire has returned to satirise the horrors of plastic, disposable America Sunday Times
