We Are What We Pretend To Be : The First and Last Works

from fuzzy_patters

This book has both Vonnegut's first and last works, which were published posthumously. The first is a very sweet story about a boy who goes to work on the farm of some relative's after his parents died. The second is about a middle aged comedian. What is interesting about these two stories is how...

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Re-read. This 'work' always fascinates me because it contains Vonnegut's first (unpublished) written work and his last (unpublished) before dying. Written nearly 50 some years apart. The first is so optimistic and even written in kind of a 'naive' manner; whereas the last piece is so cynical. It'...

from lydia1879

I read my most recent Kurt Vonnegut novel under eerily similar circumstances. I'd just left my wife and was going back to school, about this time two years ago when I'd read The Monkey House. Thankfully, we now have an immigration lawyer so that part of my life should be moving along smoothly soo...

from davadog13

The idea behind this was that they would publish the first and last works of Kurt Vonnegut. The first, a novella, is very barebones. It moves at a steady pace but there's a level of disconnect, very little flavor to the writing. The plot is slightly predictable but still fairly well-conceived. Th...