Timequake

According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter egoamp;mdash;the old science fiction writer Kilgore Troutamp;mdash;a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely, or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decadeamp;mdash;for good or illamp;mdash;a second time.

As a character in, and a brilliant chronicler of, this bizarre event, Kurt Vonnegut casts his wicked wit and his unique perspective on life as he lived it and observed it, for more than seventy years.

A Macmillan Audio production.

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Timequake

According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter egoamp;mdash;the old science fiction writer Kilgore Troutamp;mdash;a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely, or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decadeamp;mdash;for good or illamp;mdash;a second time.

As a character in, and a brilliant chronicler of, this bizarre event, Kurt Vonnegut casts his wicked wit and his unique perspective on life as he lived it and observed it, for more than seventy years.

A Macmillan Audio production.

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Timequake

Timequake

by Kurt Vonnegut
Timequake

Timequake

by Kurt Vonnegut

 


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Overview

According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter egoamp;mdash;the old science fiction writer Kilgore Troutamp;mdash;a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely, or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decadeamp;mdash;for good or illamp;mdash;a second time.

As a character in, and a brilliant chronicler of, this bizarre event, Kurt Vonnegut casts his wicked wit and his unique perspective on life as he lived it and observed it, for more than seventy years.

A Macmillan Audio production.


Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"This is the indispensible Vonnegut."
—San Francisco Chronicle

"Wry and trenchant . . . highly entertaining."
—The New York Times Book Review

"His funniest book since Breakfast of Champions . . . There are nuggets of Vonnegutian wisdom throughout."
—Newsweek

"Timequake is a novel by, and starring, Kurt Vonnegut . . . What Vonnegut does, which no one can do better, is give a big postmodern shrug . . . You've got to love him."
—The Washington Post Book World

"Humorous, sardonic . . . Timequake makes for irresistible reading that's loaded with more important truths than it lets on . . . Moralizing has never been funnier."
—Chicago Sun-Times

"Vonnegut is at his best."
—Atlanta Journal & Constitution

Product Details

BN ID: 2940169399226
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Publication date: 04/28/2015
Edition description: Unabridged
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