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Word: vonnegut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very sharp to succeed at all. It must present an absurd situation in such a way that the audience can identify it as absurd; yet as a very definite part of human nature. Notable examples of this sort of humor/social commentary are Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Cat's Cradle, and Thomas Pynchon's brilliant Gravity's Rainbow. A notable failure of this genre is Thomas Bernhard's The President, currently...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Don't Look Now | 3/12/1977 | See Source »

...Slapstick, Vonnegut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...Slapstick, Vonnegut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...Slapstick, Vonnegut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...Trinity, Uris (1 last week) 2-Sleeping Murder, Christie (2) 3-Storm Warning, Higgins (3) 4-Raise the Titanic!, Cussler (6) 5-Slapstick, Vonnegut (5) 6-The Crash of '79, Erdman (7) 7-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (4) 8-Dolores, Susann (8) 9-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (9) 10-The Users, Haber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

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