Fates Worse Than Death
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut is unquestionably a major shaper of the way the late twentieth century views itself. Now, as the 1900s stagger toward an end, Vonnegut looks back, examining the issues and events, both personal and cultural, that to him denote the past decade. Whether the subject is a death in the family, Vonnegut’s own brush with suicidal depression, the future of the planet….Read More
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