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Armageddon in Retrospect
Armageddon in Retrospect
Oct 30, 2024 7:30 PM

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

Armageddon in Retrospect

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.

Reviews

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

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

—— Lionel Shriver , Financial Times

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

—— Independent

The best of these unpublished pieces are as mad, bitter, hilarious and, in their healthy disrespect not only for 'Get Tough America' but for humanity in general, as startlingly timely as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