The Vonnegut Effect - Paperback

by Jerome Klinkowitz (Author)

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome Klinkowitz finds unique among postmodernist authors. In this innovative study of the author's fiction, Klinkowitz examines the forces in American life that have made Vonnegut's works possible.

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A remarkable analysis of Vonnegut's fiction and its cultural impact

Author Biography

Jerome Klinkowitz is the author of more than forty books, including novels, collections of short stories, air combat narratives, and studies of literature, philosophy, art, music, and sports. His other books on Vonnegut include Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction and Kurt Vonnegut's America. Klinkowitz is a professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa.