In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides readers, with insight and passion, through a biography of 15 of Kurt Vonnegut's best known works - his 14 novels, starting with Player Piano (Bantam, 1999), all the way to an epilogue on his last book, A Man Without A Country (Bloomsbury, 2007), to illustrate the quintessential American writer's profound engagement with the American Dream' in its various forms. Sumner gives readers a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the traditional values associated with the American Dream.'
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In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides readers, with insight and passion, through a biography of 15 of Kurt Vonnegut's best known works - his 14 novels, starting with Player Piano (Bantam, 1999), all the way to an epilogue on his last book, A Man Without A Country (Bloomsbury, 2007), to illustrate the quintessential American writer's profound engagement with the American Dream' in its various forms. Sumner gives readers a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the traditional values associated with the American Dream.'