Both Uses
Kurt Vonnegut
in
Looking for Alaska
(Edited)
- ...Pudge has been deprived of many wonderful Culver Creek experiences, including but not limited to ... going out late at night and lying in the dewy soccer field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.
p. 76.5Kurt Vonnegut = U.S. writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism, satire and science fiction (b. 1922)
- As promised in the list, she brought a Kurt Vonnegut book, Cat's Cradle, and she read aloud to me, her soft voice mingling with the frogs' croaking and the grasshoppers landing softly around us.
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Definitions:
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(Kurt Vonnegut) U.S. writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism, satire and science fiction (1922-2007)Early in his career Vonnegut was published as "Kurt Vonnegut Jr." to distinguish him from his father, an architect with the same name, but he is now usually referred to simply as "Kurt Vonnegut."
He fought in World War II and was taken prisoner in Germany. He survived the firebombing of Dresden while held as a POW, an experience that became central to Slaughterhouse-Five.
His writing mixes plain, conversational language with unusual plots, time travel, and bitter humor to explore themes like war, technology, free will, and the value of basic human kindness. Novels such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions are often described as both funny and disturbing, and he is widely seen as a humanist writer who is skeptical of authority and sympathetic to ordinary people caught in systems they cannot control. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)