NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Newsweek /The Daily Beast • The Huffington Post • Kansas City Star • Time Out New York • Kirkus Reviews Slaughterhouse-Five; wry dispatches from Vonnegut’s years as a struggling writer slowly finding an audience and then dealing with sudden international fame in middle age; righteously angry letters of protest to local school boards that tried to ban his work; intimate remembrances penned to high school classmates, fellow veterans, friends, and family; and letters of commiseration and encouragement to such contemporaries as Gail Godwin, Günter Grass, and Bernard Malamud. • On a job he had as a young man: “Hell is running an elevator throughout eternity in a building with only six floors.”• To a relative who calls him a “great literary figure”: “I am an American fad—of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop.”• To his daughter Nanny: “Most letters from a parent contain a parent’s own lost dreams disguised as good advice.”• To Norman Mailer: “I am cuter than you are.”Praise for Kurt Vonnegut: Letters —Kurt Andersen, The New York Times Book Review —NPR —Newsday —The New York Times Book Review
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