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Timequake

by Kurt Vonnegut

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ISBN13: 9780425164341
ISBN10: 0425164349
Condition: Standard
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On February 13th, 2001, according to Vonnegut, the universe will tire momentarily of expanding forever. What's the point? Maybe it would be more fun to shrink for a change, and have a reunion of all the stuff back where it began. Then it could make a great big BANG again. It will shrink back to February 17th, 1991, but will then decide that expansion is the way to go, after all. As time marches on once more to 2001, though, Vonnegut and Trout and everybody else and everything else will have to do exactly what they did the first time through the decade, for good or ill: marry the wrong person, bet on the wrong horse. Whatever! Ten years of deja vu all over again! At least deja vu doesn't cause physical injury and property damage.

Review:

"At 74, Vonnegut has had enough of the writing life, he tells us in the preface, and Timequake was obviously inspired by his sense that his life's work is winding down. But let me be just the latest to declare that this work has been a blessing. Vonnegut may not have finished the novel, but for a generation of readers he still writes the book." New York Times Book Review

Review:

"His funniest book since Breakfast of Champions." Newsweek

Review:

"Irresistible reading." Chicago Sun-Times

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Sally Lehman, September 27, 2007 (view all comments by Sally Lehman)
It is in Timequake that Kurt Vonnegut Jr describes writing as "(i)diosyncratic arrangements in horizontal lines of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numbers, and about eight punctuation marks." With this level of brevity and brilliance, this master of the the unsubtle encompasses the whole of what every writer needs to know. If only everyone else could arrange those symbols, numbers and punctuation marks as well as he did.

Too often, Vonnegut is known for only Slaughterhouse Five, but his other, lesser known novels like
Timequake are quirky and speak volumes more about this man's personality. In this novel he takes us through a world where ten years have to be lived over again, with all the experiences and errors and humor we lived through one before. And, of course, we learn more about the infamous Kilgore Trout and his wonderful Sci-Fi books.

If you want to see more of who Kurt Vonnegut was, read Timequake.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780425164341
Author:
Vonnegut, Kurt
Publisher:
Berkley Publishing Group
Author:
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Science fiction
Subject:
Space and time
Subject:
Space and time -- Fiction
Subject:
Alternative histories
Subject:
General Fiction
Copyright:
Edition Description:
1st Berkley trade paperback edtion
Large Print:
Y
Publication Date:
August 1998
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
250
Dimensions:
8.08x5.18x.74 in. .50 lbs.

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