Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Author: Kurt VonnegutEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-05-11
ISBN: 0385334141
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Book Review: Consumed the novel in a day
Summary: 5 Stars
The great thing about Vonnegut is that he makes it very easy to read his books, with or without an education. It may appear to some that he over simplifies or is self indulgent in his tales, which may be true, but we live in a generation of oversimplification. And a lot of people's minds are simple as well, so it only seems fitting, to keep it within our reach.
The times may have changed since his war, but not by much. And it is sad that few are able to identify with a man of his age and experience. For me, there is no war as great as Vietnam or the Holocaust. Just an invisible war on terror, which is just as meaningless as any other war.So what he says is as important today as any other day.
the novel is a good one, has a great plot and ends well. It doesn't leave you feeling like you don't know what happens at the end. I will probably read it again someday. But I will never understand it the way he did when he wrote it, because I have not experienced the misery that is war.
Summary of Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as a "true artist"* with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, "one of the best living American writers."Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.
*The New York Times
"A great artist."-Cincinnati Enquirer
"Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer.a zany but moral mad scientist."-Time
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