Word: vonnegut
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...Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut had a fantasy that time and gravity could be reversed, and that the bombs rained down upon Europe in World War II could reassemble themselves. The billions of blasted fragments would magically recombine, rescinding the destruction they had done. The bombs, made whole again, would float up into the bomb bays of the planes that had dropped them, and the planes would fly backward, back home, where the bombs would be disassembled and all their metals and explosive powders redeposited in the earth so they would be harmless and all the death would be repealed...
...KURT VONNEGUT'S MONKEY HOUSE (Showtime, May 15 and 20). Three adaptations of short stories by the sci-fi fabulist. Hardly first-rate Vonnegut (more like second-rate Rod Serling), but more fun than most anything else on TV this month...
...book's tone is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's novels never fasten down on a specific moment in time and progress from there. Some of his more memorable characters are the couple on airplane in Cat's Cradle, who boast that they are Hoosiers. Natural, comfortable feelings of closeness are never present in these novels, whose characters find satisfaction only in artificial, relatively cold institutions...
...Vonnegut is also known for his wit and ability to create bizarre characters by finding the irony in everyday life. Bradley, too, has this ability, and takes advantage of it to inject his novel with a sharp wit and satire...
BELLE FICTION: In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa -- Would you believe an erotic family novel? The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- The autumn of Simon Bolivar. Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut -- Meditations of a Vietnam vet in 2001. Buffalo Girls by Larry McMurtry -- Calamity Jane, Bill Cody and Sitting Bull whoop it up. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver -- Environmental catastrophe meets Native American mythology. The Final Club by Geoffrey Wolff -- Class warfare at Princeton during the 1950s. Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman -- Fictional characters caught up in the factual bombing of Move headquarters...