God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by:
Kurt Vonnegut (author)
Alternate for ASIN B005IHWBSY Founded originally to help Rosewaters avoid paying taxes on the family estate by Eliot's father, a senator in Rosewater County, IN, the Rosewater Foundation is operated by a large legal firm in NY & provides an annual pension of $3,000,000 to Eliot. Eliot had been...
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Alternate for ASIN B005IHWBSY Founded originally to help Rosewaters avoid paying taxes on the family estate by Eliot's father, a senator in Rosewater County, IN, the Rosewater Foundation is operated by a large legal firm in NY & provides an annual pension of $3,000,000 to Eliot. Eliot had been seen as restless early on trying all the typical things that philanthropists
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Format: Kindle Edition
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
To jest właśnie jeden z problemów tego kraju – powiedział senator patrząc na dezodorant – ci specjaliści od reklamy sprawili, że wszyscy bardziej przejmujemy się swoimi pachami niż Rosją, Chinami i Kubą razem wziętymi. Marek Oramus napisał kiedyś, że bohaterem wszystkich książek Vonneguta jest Życ...
There are a number of Vonnegut books that I wish to read again, but this is not one of them. It is not because it is a bad book, or badly written, but that it is somewhat to what I expect from him. I somehow enjoy the irony of how a science-fiction writer casts his main characters as failed science-...
Eliot Rosewater urodził się bogaty. Zapobiegliwość jego przodków, usunęła z jego drogi wszelkie materialne troski. Ich dewizą było: "Zagarniaj więcej, niż ci potrzeba, bo inaczej nie dostaniesz nic". Eliot od dzieciństwa uwielbiał towarzystwo strażaków. Kiedy więc w czasie działań wojennych Drugiej...
Wonderful, concise fable about the separation of the classes, and the differences and similarities between kindness and madness.
Mixed feelings about this one; Rosewater has some great moments, but out of his early novels this is Vonnegut at his most pessimistic about humanity, and that is saying a lot.
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