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Fates Worse than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s [SIGNED] [NEW IN PUBLISHER'S SLIPCASE AND SHRINK WRAP]
by Vonnegut, Kurt
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
"Fates Worse than Death" is a collection of essays, speeches, and other previously uncollected writings by Kurt Vonnegut.
In it the author discusses his attempted suicide. This book also includes a "humanist requiem" that Vonnegut wrote as a reaction to the Roman Catholic Requiem, which he had heard in Andrew Lloyd Webber's setting and whose text he found "terrible and sadistic."
One of 200 signed and numbered copies.
Our is brand new, in publisher's slipcase and shrink wrap.
Synopsis
Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most acclaimed American writers of the past century, died in New York City on April 11, 2007. He was the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels, including such literary classics as Slaughterhouse-Five , Cat’s Cradle and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Penguin Group (USA) was fortunate to publish several of Mr. Vonnegut’s books, including the novels Timequake and Hocus Pocus as well as a collection of short fiction, Bagombo Snuff Box .
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42528
- Title
- Fates Worse than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s [SIGNED] [NEW IN PUBLISHER'S SLIPCASE AND SHRINK WRAP]
- Author
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited First edition
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Signed, First edition
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