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A master of contemporary American literature, Vonnegut has authored 18 highly acclaimed books and dozens of short stories and essays. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate's least known co-conspirator.
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- Mary Kathleen O'looney: Add a description of this character.
- Sarah Wyatt
- Leland Clewes
- Walter F. Starbuck
- Ruth
- Arpad Leen
- Clyde Carter
- Edel
- Mrs. Sutton
- Kenneth Whistler
- Einstein
- Mrs. Jack Graham
- Lawes
- Virgil Greathouse
- Sacco
- Emil Larkin
- Alexander Hamilton Mccone
- Dr. Robert Fender
- Doris Kramm
- Sarah Clewes
- Izumi
- Richard M. Nixon
- Daniel Mccone
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“I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.”
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I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.
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remind him and everybody else that all he could do was pretend to steer.
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Setting & Locations edit
- Hotel Arapahoe
- United States
- Atlanta
- Georgia
- Chevy Chase
- Massachusetts
- America
- Nuremberg
- Cleveland
- New York City
- Maryland
- Europe
- Germany
- Harvard
- White House
- Tudor City
- Israel
- Cambridge
- Cuyahoga Bridge
- Washington
- Osaka
- Japan
- Kentucky
- China
- Chicago
- Soviet Union
- California
- Ramjac
First Sentence edit
Life goes on, yes-and a fool and his self-respect are soon parted, perhaps never to be reunited even on Judgment Day.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 5 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 1979. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Memories of Another Day, and followed by The Dead Zone.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Author)
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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1979
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Page Count: 241
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Publication Date: 1979
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Page Count: 241
Awards edit
- Prometheus Award (1982: Best Novel, nominee)
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- Dewey: 813.54
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