Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview

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During his long career, Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut - which collects interviews from throughout his career - we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end. Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a grandmaster of contemporary American letters whose contribution to literature is immense. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century, with works including Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle.

Kurt Vonnegut's black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" (The New York Times) with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, "one of the best living American writers." Vonnegut died April 11, 2007.

"Like Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln, even when he's funny, he's depressed. . . . The way he goes about his business has helped most of us to go on living, if only to find out what happens next." -John Leonard, The Nation "He is a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe." -Jay McInerney "Vonnegut is our strongest writer . . . the most stubbornly imaginative." -John Irving