God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a satirical novel that delves into themes of wealth inequality, human nature, and morality. The story follows Eliot Rosewater, a wealthy man who decides to use his fortune to help those less fortunate, much to the confusion and disapproval of his family. Through witty and humorous storytelling, Vonnegut explores the absurdity of the class system, capitalism, and the concept of kindness in a society driven by greed and selfishness. The narrative is filled with quirky characters, including the recurring figure Kilgore Trout, and offers a thought-provoking commentary on societal norms and values.
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Content warnings include themes of mental health issues, suicidal ideation, and critiques of wealth disparity, which may be distressing to some readers.
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With the satirical eye of his science fiction author alter ego Kilgore Trout, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five delivers a classic of modern American literature.
Eliot Rosewater, President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation and volunteer firefighter, is tortured by an inheritance he doesn't feel that he deserves. After (unfortunately) developing a social conscience, he sets out on a drunken tour of America, unravelling a little more at every stop until his path crosses with the science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is one of Kurt Vonnegut's funniest satires, about the pleasures, pains and perversions of people and money, the obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness of a nation.
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About the Author:
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel Player Piano (1952) achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'. His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.
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