In addition, all pages on Bizapedia will be served to you completely ad freeĪnd you will be granted access to view every profile in its entirety, even if the company chooses to hide the private information on their profile from the general public. “Leeds’s scholarship and genuine love for his subject matter render this encyclopedia a treasure trove for Vonnegut readers.Your entire office will be able to use your search subscription. “Leeds’s scholarship and genuine love for his subject matter render this encyclopedia a treasure trove for Vonnegut readers.” -The Nameless Zine A wonderful and beautifully designed reference source.” - Booklist (starred review) “Vonnegut enthusiasts will be delighted with Leeds’s exhaustive, almost obsessive, treatment of the characters, places, events, and tantalizingly mysterious references for which Vonnegut’s five-decade writing career is celebrated. Just don’t blame him if you become unstuck in time while you’re reading.” - Inverse And, Marc Leeds and his new Encyclopedia are here to guide you through it all. For the devout reader of Vonnegut there’s a voracious sense of completism. “If you’re somebody who has read one Kurt Vonnegut book then there’s a chance you’ve read them all. “An essential collection for fans of the singular satirist.” - San Francisco Chronicle The Vonnegut Encyclopedia is an invaluable resource for readers wishing to revisit his fictional universe-and those about to explore it for the first time. A rarity among authors of serious fiction, Kurt Vonnegut has always inspired something like obsession in his most dedicated fans. Leeds provides expert notes explaining the significance of many items, but relies primarily on extended quotations from Vonnegut himself.Ī work of impressive scholarship in an eminently browsable package, this encyclopedia reveals countless connections readers may never have thought of on their own. The Vonnegut Encyclopedia identifies every major and minor Vonnegut character from Celia Aamons to Zog, as well as recurring images and relevant themes from all of Vonnegut’s works, including lesser-known gems like his revisionist libretto for Stravinsky’s opera L’Histoire du soldat and his 1980 children’s book Sun Moon Star. Marc Leeds, co-founder and founding president of the Kurt Vonnegut Society and a longtime personal friend of the author’s, has devoted more than twenty-five years of his life to cataloging the Vonnegut cosmos-from the birthplace of Kilgore Trout (Vonnegut’s sci-fi writing alter ego) to the municipal landmarks of Midland City (the midwestern metropolis that is the setting for Vonnegut’s 1973 masterpiece Breakfast of Champions). This new and updated edition encompasses his writing through his death in 2007. The first edition of this book covered Vonnegut’s work through 1991. The Vonnegut Encyclopedia is an exhaustive guide to this beloved author’s world, organized in a handy A-to-Z format. Over the course of five decades, Kurt Vonnegut created a complex and interconnected web of characters, settings, and concepts. Now expanded and updated, this authorized compendium to Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, stories, essays, and plays is the most comprehensive and definitive edition to date.
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