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Kurt Vonnegut ; [illustrations by the author ; introduction by Mark Vonnegut]Publication Details
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) PS3572.O5 A85 2008 DUE 12-18-08 New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Read an Unreleased Kurt Vonnegut Story, “Guns Before Butter” “Guns Before Butter,” Kurt Vonnegut’s story of hungry GIs held as prisoner of war in World War II in Dresden (a site of Vonnegut’s best-known novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, and his own wartime imprisonment), was unpublished until its inclusion in Armageddon in Retrospect. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Notes
- Twelve previously unpublished writings on war and peace include such pieces as an essay on the destruction of Dresden, a story about the first-meal fantasies of three soldiers, and a meditation on the impossibility of shielding children from the temptations of violence
Contents
- Letter from PFC Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., to his family, May 29, 1945
- Kurt Vonnegut at Clowes Hall, Indianapolis, April 27, 2007
- Wailing shall be in all streets
- Great day
- Guns before butter
- Happy birthday, 1951
- Brighten up
- Unicorn trap
- Unknown soldier
- Spoils
- Just you and me, Sammy
- Commandant’s desk
- Armageddon in retrospect
ISBN
- 9780399155086
- 0399155082
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