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Timequake

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Quotations
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Timequake Quotes
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Timequake (1996), a novel by Kurt Vonnegut . There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time. All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental. Xanthippe thought her husband, Socrates, was a...


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Timequake Information
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Timequake is a semi-autobiographical work by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. published in 1997. Vonnegut described the novel as a "stew", in which he alternates between summarizing a novel he had been struggling with for a number of years, and waxing nostalgic about...


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World Literature Today
Timequake. (book reviews)
03/22/1998: 492 words, approx. 2 pages
Kurt Vonnegut. New York. Putnam. 1997. xiv + 219 pages. $23.95. ISBN 0-399-13737-8. The sad fact is that Timequake is no great shakes. While Kurt Vonnegut does supply a few tremors of amusement in this hodgepodge of fact and fiction - the supposed...
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Denver Rocky Mountain News
`timequake' No Earth-shaker
10/05/1997: 562 words, approx. 2 pages
Mark Graham Denver Rocky Mountain News 10-05-1997 'TIMEQUAKE' NO EARTH-SHAKER Timequake J By Kurt Vonnegut J Putnam, 240 pages, $23.95. Timequake is a thoughtful, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes frightening and always literate book. The author has written...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Valerie Sayers
963 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Sayers describes Timequake as a mix of novel and memoir.
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Critical Review by Thomas M. Disch
857 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Disch argues that Timequake discloses much information about Vonnegut himself.


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