Vonnegut Effect

A defining analysis of the entire span of Kurt Vonnegut''s fiction

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few American writers since Mark Twain to have won and sustained a great popular acceptance while boldly introducing new themes and forms on the literary cutting edge. This is the "Vonnegut effect" that Jerome Klinkowitz finds unique among postmodernist authors.

In this innovative study of the author''s fic...