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Description

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “I won't know myself until I find out whether life is serious or not . It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.”
    Trout
  • “God wasn't any conservationist, so for anybody else to be one was sacrilegious and a waste of time”
    Trout

First Sentence

THIS IS A TALE of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

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  1. Kurt Vonnegut (Author)
 

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