Scan barcode
A review by erin_oriordan_is_reading_again
Unstuck in Time: A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels by Gregory D. Sumner
5.0
Hello, babies. I recommend this book to every one of you planetary citizens, assuming you're already familiar with some of the works of the late, great Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. If not, get thee to the library and read [b:Slaughterhouse Five|4981|Slaughterhouse Five|Kurt Vonnegut|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1316813479s/4981.jpg|1683562] now! But don't stop there, because Vonnegut reuses characters and themes throughout his major works.
Maybe I'm biased in favor of Vonnegut because he's from my Midwestern USA home state, or because he uses people and places from his own life in his novels like I do. Still, in this volume, Gregory D. Sumner (another one of our fellow Hoosiers) manages to showcase the brilliance in every one of Vonnegut's 14 novels, written between 1952 and 1997.
Just the novels, though. This book does not get into Vonnegut's memoir [b:Palm Sunday|9602|Palm Sunday|Kurt Vonnegut|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320511590s/9602.jpg|1760881], his other non-fiction works, his collections of short stories or his plays. Still, if you want to get into a thorough discussion of the heart of what Vonnegut will be remembered for, then 'Unstuck in Time' is indispensable.
Maybe I'm biased in favor of Vonnegut because he's from my Midwestern USA home state, or because he uses people and places from his own life in his novels like I do. Still, in this volume, Gregory D. Sumner (another one of our fellow Hoosiers) manages to showcase the brilliance in every one of Vonnegut's 14 novels, written between 1952 and 1997.
Just the novels, though. This book does not get into Vonnegut's memoir [b:Palm Sunday|9602|Palm Sunday|Kurt Vonnegut|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320511590s/9602.jpg|1760881], his other non-fiction works, his collections of short stories or his plays. Still, if you want to get into a thorough discussion of the heart of what Vonnegut will be remembered for, then 'Unstuck in Time' is indispensable.