Breakfast of Champions
1973 American novel by Kurt Vonnegut / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the novel. For the movie, see Breakfast of Champions (film). For the breakfast cereal, see Wheaties.
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. His seventh novel, it is set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Ohio, and focuses on two characters: Dwayne Hoover, a Midland resident, Pontiac dealer and affluent figure in the city, and Kilgore Trout, a widely published but mostly unknown science fiction author. Breakfast of Champions deals with themes of free will, suicide, and race relations, among others. The novel is full of drawings by the author, substituting descriptive language with depictions requiring no translation.
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Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Metafiction • postmodernism • satire |
Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Publication date | 1973 |
ISBN | 0-385-28089-0 |
OCLC | 524241 |
813.54 | |
LC Class | PS3572.O5 B7 |
Preceded by | Slaughterhouse-Five |
Followed by | Slapstick |
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