Oedipal Wrecks
Michael Mason, 26 March 1992
Fates Worse than Death
by Kurt Vonnegut.
Cape, 240 pp., £14.99, October 1991,0 224 02918 5 Show More
by Kurt Vonnegut.
Cape, 240 pp., £14.99, October 1991,
“... encouraged by the stunningly successful debuts of some of Vonnegut’s contemporaries, notably Mailer with The Naked and the Dead, Jones with From Here to Eternity and Heller with Catch 22). After a conventionally modest beginning with the hardback-only Player Piano Vonnegut became a writer of original paperback fiction: a format which in those days ... ”