New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)

Kurt Vonnegut?

€™s darkly comic work became a symbol for the counterculture of a generation.

From his debut novel, Player Piano (1951) through seminal 1960?

€™s novels such as Cat?

€™s Cradle (1963) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) up to the recent success of A Man Without A Country (2005), Vonnegut?

€™s writing has remained commercially popular, offering a satirical yet optimistic outlook on modern life.

Though many fellow writers admired Vonnegut?

€”Gore Vidal famously suggesting that ?

€œKurt was never dull?

€ ?

€”the academic establishment has tended to retain a degree of scepticism concerning the validity of his work.

This dynamic collection aims to re-evaluate Vonnegut?

€™s position as an integral part of the American post-war canon of literature.

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