Armageddon in Retrospect
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407014173
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

Armageddon in Retrospect

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The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death-a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's tendency toward violence.

First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's tendency towards violence. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humour, the pieces range from a visceral non-fiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden - to a painfully funny short story about three soldiers and their fantasies of the perfect meal.
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407014173
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256
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Praise for Armageddon in Retrospect

Reads like a madcap Montaigne on acid

Metro

The most entertaining of American writers, almost a new Mark Twain...his words can travel on through time

Daily Mail

The wittiest man since Groucho Marx and the wisest since Karl Marx

The Times

(Vonnegut) was a splendid preacher of American populism at its most radical...always funny and sometimes refreshingly vulgar

Independent

Imbued with the innocence, empathy, and kindness that always seemed central to Vonnegut's sensibility

Lionel Shriver, Financial Times

The best of these unpublished pieces are as mad, bitter, hilarious and, in their healthy disrespect not only for 'Get Tough America' but for humanity in general, as startlingly timely as the best of his output

Daily Telegraph

You should buy this book

Spectator

Dark, funny and disturbing

London Review of Books