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A Man Without a Country Study Guide

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by Kurt Vonnegut
About 47 pages (14,128 words)
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In the first essay, Vonnegut begins this book by discussing humor, its importance in his life, and its importance to the world in general. At first, he describes his youth. As the youngest child in a family of intellectual talkers, he always wanted to jump into the conversation, but even as a child he knows the rest of the family (his father, mother, older brother, older/sister) are not interested in his childish days. (read more)
      Chapter 1, "As a Kid I was the Youngest"
      Chapter 2, "Do You Know What A Twerp Is?"
      Chapter 3, "Here is a Lesson in Creative Writing"
      Chapter 4, "I'm Going to Tell You Some News"
      Chapter 5, "Okay, Now Let's Have Some Fun"
      Chapter 6, "I Have Been Called a Luddite"
      Chapter 7, "I Turned Eighty-two on November 11"
      Chapter 8, "Do You Know What a Humanist Is?"
      Chapter 9, "Do Unto Others"
      Chapter 10, "A Sappy Woman from Ypsilanti"
      Chapter 11, "Now Then, I Have Some Good News"
      Chapter 12, "I Used to be the Owner and Manager of an Automobile Dealership"

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