Kurt Vonnegut?s death on April 11, 2007, marked the passing of a major force in American life and letters. Jerome Klinkowitz, one of the earliest and most prolific authorities on Vonnegut, examines the long dialogue between the author and American culture?a conversation that produced fourteen novels and hundreds of short stories and essays. Spanning Vonnegut?s half-century literary career, Kurt Vonnegut?s America integrates discussion of myriad fiction, essays, and lectures with personal exchanges and biographical sketches to map the complex symbiotic relationship between Vonnegut?s work and the cultural context from which it emerged?and which it in turn helped shape. Following an introduction characterizing Vonnegut as Klinkowitz came to know him over the course of their friendship, this study traces Vonnegut?s career, decade by decade, drawing connections between the nation?s preoccupations, the author?s biography, and his literary productions. Vonnegut?s 1950s saw him starting out...

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