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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS

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by Kurt Vonnegut (1973)

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Kilgore Trout is hitching his way to the Arts Festival. Conversations, realisations, and visions ensue. Dwayne Hoover is already in the area. Similar things occur for him; however, bad chemicals disrupt his thinking. Later, the author also arrives, and he can do whatever he wants to do, because he invented all the characters in this story. Along the way, America and its domestic culture is stripped bare. With the mask well and truly displaced, an unvarnished re-presentation of American history and culture appears. An elegantly constructed encyclopaedia which shamelessly illustrates the vast difference between what we are taught it is and what it actually is. A history book disguised as a novel. Fiction and Non-fiction. 296 pages.

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DETAILS:

Title: Breakfast of champions

Year: 1973

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Pages: 296

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Book review by Keith Salter