God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
by:
Kurt Vonnegut (author)
Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life serving the dull, the ugly, the irrelevant and the useless. This is a novel about the pleasures, pains and perversions of people and money. It is the story of a...
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Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life serving the dull, the ugly, the irrelevant and the useless. This is a novel about the pleasures, pains and perversions of people and money. It is the story of a millionaire's lunacy, the obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness of a nation.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781407086989 (1407086987)
Publish date: December 1st 2011
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Pages no: 192
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.
13 years ago
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