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Hocus Pocus 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.
1363 words, approx. 4.5 pages
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.
16774 words, approx. 55.9 pages
[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...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Hocus Pocus Information
880 words, approx. 3 pages
Hocus Pocus is a 1990 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. Plot summary The main character is Eugene Debs Hartke, a Vietnam War veteran and college professor, who realizes that he has killed exactly as many people as the number of women he has had sex with. The...


News and Journals
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Preventing hocus pocus
04/23/2001: 887 words, approx. 3 pages
Preventing hocus pocus Williams, Johnson carry Bucks By MICHAEL HUNT of the Journal Sentinel staff Monday, April 23, 2001 This cannot be a great comfort to the Orlando Magic: The Milwaukee Bucks hardly brought their A game but...
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Skeptic
Hocus-pocus history
01/01/2000: 3,667 words, approx. 12 pages
HOCUS-POCUS HISTORY WHAT IF FDR KNEW ABOUT PEARL HARBOR? Review of Robert B. Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor, The Free Press, 2000, ISBN 0-684-85339-6, 374 pages, $26.00. WHEN A MAGICIAN pulls a rabbit out of a...
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The New York Observer
Tradition Reimagined Revives an Old Favorite
5/1/2005: 567 words, approx. 2 pages
The latest resurrection of Gounod's Faust at the Metropolitan Opera-staged with compulsive vividness-employs a cast that for uniform brilliance may surpass that of any Faust in the company's 122-year history. That's no mean feat: The opera has been performed at the Met more than 700...
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AP Features
New Age ideas face tough sell in security-conscious Egypt
9/26/2007: 852 words, approx. 3 pages
Two days before the opening of Egypt's first ever New Age festival, organizer Suzanne Mitchell-Egan was summoned by state security, the nation's dreaded plainclothes police force, to explain what she was up to.For three hours, deep in the bowels of a building where many an...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by John Leonard
3,423 words, approx. 11 pages
In the review below, Leonard praises Hocus Pocus and discusses Vonnegut's fatalistic message.
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Critical Review by John Irving
2,080 words, approx. 7 pages
Irving is an acclaimed American novelist and short story writer. In the review below, he praises Hocus Pocus as one of Vonnegut's best novels and discusses the merits of Vonnegut's writing.
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Critical Review by James Buchan
1,384 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following review, Buchan states that Hocus Pocus has many elements in common with Vonnegut's earlier novels.
 


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