Mother Night
  • Published: 3 August 2015
  • ISBN: 9780099819301
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $23.00
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Mother Night

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3 Aug 2015
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21 May 2020
Tr. Paperback
15 Dec 2014
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A diabolically funny and macabre novel by the brilliantly wacky Kurt Vonnegut - now rejacketed with brilliant, witty new look for the backlist

‘Black satire of the highest polish’ Guardian

Whilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Campbell Jr sets down his memoirs on an old German typewriter. He has used such a typewriter before, when he worked as a Nazi propagandist under Goebbels. Though that was before he agreed to become a spy for US military. Is Howard guilty? Can a black or white verdict ever be reached in a world that’s a gazillion shades of grey?

‘After Vonnegut, everything else seems a bit tame’ Spectator
  • Published: 3 August 2015
  • ISBN: 9780099819301
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $23.00
Categories:
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Praise for Mother Night

Vonnegut's chilling early masterpiece

Observer

Mother Night is not one of his most famous books, but it's one of the best

Washington Post

A brilliant wacky ideas-monger

Observer

A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny

Financial Times

One of the master alchemists of modern American fiction

Sunday Times

Vonnegut saw the worst excesses of humanity during the bombing of Dresden, but then spent the rest of his life writing with a mixture of exasperation and hope about the foibles of humanity.

Robin Ince, Guardian

Everyone should read Vonnegut

Tim Minchin

A laughing prophet of doom

New York Times

One of the best living American writers

Graham Greene