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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

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Author Biography

Name: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Birth Date: November 11, 1922
Place of Birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, essayist, dramatist

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Biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (born 1922) is acknowledged as a major voice in American literature and applauded for his pungent satirical depictions of modern society. Emphasizing the comic absurdity of the human condition, he frequently depicts characters who sear...
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Biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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[This entry was updated by Peter J. Reed (University of Minnesota) from his entry in DLB 152: American Novelists Since World War II, Fourth Series.] Though Kurt Vonnegut had been a widely read short-story writer throughout the 1950s and though his novels...
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Biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
14474 words, approx. 48.2 pages
As of 1987 Kurt Vonnegut's work includes twelve novels, a play and a television play, two collections of short stories, two collections of essays, and a miscellany of uncollected shorter pieces of fiction and nonfiction. He is himself the subject of a nu...
 


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Breakfast of Champions Information
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Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." One of...


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Dayton Daily News
Breakfasts Of Champions
02/06/2002: 362 words, approx. 1 pages
Even if you're just watching the Olympics, the day is all downhill without a good morning meal It's basic wisdom, whether you're an Olympic contender, a mom on the run or a kid facing a math test. You have to eat breakfast to...
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Breakfast of champions
02/01/2002: 306 words, approx. 1 pages
News If you are planning to attend this year's Dealer Expo in Indy, please note that the BlueRibbon Coalition (Booth 6704) will be hosting the Breakfast Of Champions & Memorabilia Auction Sunday morning, starting at 8 a.m. in the Capitol Ballroom of the...
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Kurt Vonnegut tops in public's heart
11/16/2007: 775 words, approx. 3 pages
Within the past year, three of the most famous authors to emerge after World War II have died: Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and William Styron. Their deaths all resulted in front-page stories, lengthy appreciations and ongoing discussions about their place in American letters.No writer was...
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Bonds far from a big hit with sponsors
8/25/2007: 874 words, approx. 3 pages
Barry Bonds' smiling mug won't be gracing boxes of the Breakfast of Champions anytime soon. Since hitting No. 756 there have been no "I'm going to Disneyland" moments for Bonds, no cereal box immortality."We simply have no plans at this point," to work with Bonds,...
 


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Critical Essay by Martin Burns
568 words, approx. 2 pages
In Breakfast of Champions, Vonnegut intends to release his characters from his control. In doing so, he shows their unreadiness to cope with freedom, or to measure up to its responsibilities. In a sense, he is telling us that we are all living in our own private novels, but our actions do not, in reality, follow a coherent plot. Our lives collide and interfere with each other. We inevitably become what we do…. Vonnegut's people were once machines that one could wind up and set loose. He wants ...
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Critical Essay by J. D. O'hara
360 words, approx. 1 pages
[Breakfast of Champions] is almost a deliberate curiosity, an earnest attempt to play after getting Dresden out of the way. It's filled with Vonnegut's cartoon drawings of items mentioned in the text; it plays the whimsical game of pretending that we know nothing about life on earth … and it delivers many straight-faced criticisms of Life…. He indulges in some obligatory no-no's: he talks about Niggers, he draws a vagina, he gives penis measurements of most of the male cha...


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