Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
by:
Kurt Vonnegut (author)
ISBN:
9780586042564 (0586042563)
Publish date: 1976
Publisher: Panther
Pages no: 255
Edition language: English
Not my favorite Vonnegut, but an interesting collection of his non-fiction, with a bizarre one act play for added flavor. His review of fear and loathing on the campaign trail 1972 offers a good insight into his opinions of his contemporaries. His report on biafra is a heartbreaking chronicle of a ...
In this rather random collection of essays and speeches Vonnegut comes across as a humanist who doesn't like humans all that much. At his best Vonnegut is like a prophet who has grown disgruntled with God, and at his worst he is like a hippy doing an impression of Mark Twain, so even his worst is s...