God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
  • Published: 3 November 1992
  • ISBN: 9780099842804
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $30.00

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

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The story of a man who reacts to past tragedy, family greed and fabulous wealth by promptly going insane

With the satirical eye of his science fiction author alter ego Kilgore Trout, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five delivers a classic of modern American literature.

Eliot Rosewater, President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation and volunteer firefighter, is tortured by an inheritance he doesn’t feel that he deserves. After (unfortunately) developing a social conscience, he sets out on a drunken tour of America, unravelling a little more at every stop until his path crosses with the science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout.

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is one of Kurt Vonnegut’s funniest satires, about the pleasures, pains and perversions of people and money, the obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness of a nation.
  • Published: 3 November 1992
  • ISBN: 9780099842804
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $30.00
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Praise for God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

Vonnegut faces up to the less glamorous phenomenon of human mediocrity in this sharp, hilarious, boundlessly humane story. It taught me about compassion and a few things about writing good dialogue

Michel Faber, Glasgow Herald

Rumbustious stuff... There may be greater novelists than Vonnegut, but there can be a few, if any, with as much good humour and generosity

Guardian

Filled with irony and black humour and a woozy bonhomie

Sunday Times

Wild hilarity

Sunday Telegraph

Extremely funny

Observer