by Kurt Vonnegut
The BasicsRabo Karabekian is an artist aging alone in a big house full of modern art. Then one day he finds Circe Berman, a young widow, on his private beach. She urges him to write an autobiography about his life, invites herself to live in his house, and starts asking questions about the locked po...
Suggested by Rand (as being in a similiar vein to Galapagos). Another plus point is (presumably) that it touches on Jane Eyre (which I've read many times) and Wide Sargasso Sea (which I have just read for the first time).
I'm on a Vonnegut bender, so I can't read any of his novels without comparing them to the last five I've read. This one is pretty good, but not as good as Cat's Cradle or Hocus Pocus, but better than Player Piano. Another faked biography, Vonnegut picks of the pen hand of a failed expressionist pa...
my favorite of all his books.
This is maybe the fourth or fifth Vonnegut book I've read, having only been introduced to him recently, sadly. I'm becoming quite a fan of his writing. What I like about him is that a lot of deep truths mask the ironic and humorous statements he makes. Definitely a must-read for those who like satir...
The fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, the son of survivors of the Armenian Genocide, one-eyed veteran of World War II, and spectacularly talented (but failed) modern artist.As an Armenian-American, I can't be objective about this book. Vonnegut got too much of the Armenian-American experie...
The fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, the son of survivors of the Armenian Genocide, one-eyed veteran of World War II, and spectacularly talented (but failed) modern artist.As an Armenian-American, I can't be objective about this book. Vonnegut got too much of the Armenian-American experie...
1999 Mar 11
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