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082	1		_a92 VON _2
100	1		_aVonnegut, Kurt
245	1	2	_aA man without a country _c/ Kurt Vonnegut ; edited by Daniel Simon
260			_aNew York _b: Seven Stories Press _c, c2005
300			_a146 p. _b: illus. _c; 22 cm.
505	0		_aAs a kid I was the youngest -- Do you know what a twerp is? -- Here is a lesson in creative writing -- I'm going to tell you some news -- Okay, now let's have some fun -- I have been called a Luddite -- I turned eighty-two on November 11 -- Do you know what a humanist is? -- Do unto others -- A sappy woman from Ypsilanti -- Now then, I have some good news -- I used to be the owner and manager of an automobile dealership -- Requiem
520			_aIn his first book since 1999, it's just like old times as Vonnegut makes with the deeply black humor in this collection of articles written over the last five years, many from the alternative magazine In These Times. But the pessimistic wisecracks may be wearing thin; the conversational tone of the pieces is like Garrison Keillor with a savage undercurrent. Still, the schtick works fine most of the time, underscored by hand-lettered aphorisms between chapters. Some essays suffer from authorial self-indulgence, however, like taking a dull story about mailing a manuscript and stretching it to interminable lengths. Vonnegut reserves special bile for the "psychopathic personalities" (i.e., "smart, personable people who have no consciences") in the Bush administration, which he accuses of invading Iraq so America can score more of the oil to which we have become addicted. People, he says, are just "chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power." Of course, that's exactly the sort of misanthropy hardcore Vonnegut fans will lap up--the online versions of these pieces are already described as the most popular Web pages in the history of In These Times.
546			_aEnglish.
600	1	4	_aVonnegut, Kurt
650		4	_aAuthors, American _y-20th century _v--Biography
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Politics and government _y-2001-
700	1		_aSimon, Daniel _d(, 1957-)
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