{"product_id":"9781598534641","title":"Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1987-1997 (Loa #273): Bluebeard \/ Hocus Pocus \/ Timequake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s fiction concludes with three brilliantly satirical novels of the 1980s and ’90s collected in one volume for the first time. \u003c\/b\u003eHere are the final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. \u003ci\u003eBluebeard\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In \u003ci\u003eHocus Pocus\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), a freewheeling prison memoir by a Vietnam vet and disgraced academic, Vonnegut brings his indelible voice to a range of still-burning issues—free speech, racism, environmental calamity, deindustrialization, and globalization. \u003ci\u003eTimequake\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), the author’s last completed novel, is part science fiction yarn (starring perennial protagonist Kilgore trout), part diary of the mid-1990s (starring the author himself). the result is a perfect fusion of Vonnegut’s two signature genres, the satirical fantasy and the personal essay, and a literary magician’s fond farewell to his readers and his craft. Rounded out with a selection of short nonfiction pieces intimately related to these three works, this volume presents the final word from the artist who the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, reviewing \u003ci\u003eTimequake\u003c\/i\u003e, called an “old warrior who will not accept the dehumanizing of politics, the blunting of conscience, and the glibness of the late-twentieth-century Western world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059799277808,"sku":"9781598534641","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781598534641_p0.jpg?v=1763825516","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781598534641","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}