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Breakfast of Champions or "Goodbye Blue Monday" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [] DELACORTE PRESS

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   Dust jacket has visible shelf /  rub wear as well as a few small sealed tears, but is otherwise very good and fully in tact. 

Book itself is excellent;  cloth cover is pristine and inside reads good as new.  Perfect vintage reading copy! 

In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

Breakfast of Champions is longer than the average Vonnegut novel at pages in an old Panther paperback edition I have.

It&#;s experimental in several ways. Each paragraph is introduced with an arrow → making them seem more like disconnected apothegms than part of a consecutive prose text, and sometimes the paragraphs reduce to totally disconnected sentences. More like reading Nietzsche than a novel.

Then there&#;s the author&#;s amateurish but quite appealing drawings, at least one every two pages, sometimes two on a page, squeezing the prose out, like in a children&#;s book. I counted of them. Here&#;s an example.

And another one.

It took Vonnegut a long four years to grind out Breakfast of Champions and several times he abandoned it. It had poor reviews and in later life he gave it a low rating among his works. But I like it. I think it demonstrates

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Breakfast of Champions

American novel bygd Kurt Vonnegut

This article is about the novel. For the movie, see Breakfast of Champions (film). For the breakfast cereal, see Wheaties.

Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. His seventh novel, it is set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Ohio, and focuses on two characters: Dwayne Hoover, a Midland resident, Pontiac dealer and affluent figure in the city, and Kilgore Trout, a widely published but mostly unknown science fiction author. Breakfast of Champions deals with themes of free will, suicide, and race relations, among others. The novel is full of drawings by the author, substituting descriptive language with depictions requiring no translation.

Plot

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Breakfast of Champions tells the story of the events that lead up to the meeting of Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover, the meeting itself, and the immediate aftermath. Trout is a struggling sci