Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday
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Considerable wear on the cover with edge-wear and some creasing, there is a tear on the top left-hand corner. Spine is creased, slightly bowed with faded lettering. Text is clean and unmarked, with some tanning. There is a crease on the top right-hand corner from the End Sheet to page 153. PLEASE SEE THE PHOTOS THAT I POSTED ON THE PRODUCT PAGE OF THIS BOOK. First Dell Edition published by Dell Pu...
MoreConsiderable wear on the cover with edge-wear and some creasing, there is a tear on the top left-hand corner. Spine is creased, slightly bowed with faded lettering. Text is clean and unmarked, with some tanning. There is a crease on the top right-hand corner from the End Sheet to page 153. PLEASE SEE THE PHOTOS THAT I POSTED ON THE PRODUCT PAGE OF THIS BOOK. First Dell Edition published by Dell Publishing, N.Y., January 1975, 294 pages in Acceptable Condition. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer and Burger Chef franchise owner who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. Vonnegut sprinkled the novel with some of his own simple felt-tip pen drawings, intending to illustrate various aspects of life on Earth. These drawings include renderings of an anus, an American flag, the date 1492, a vagina, little girls' underpants, guns, trucks, cows and the hamburgers that are made from them, chickens and the Kentucky Fried Chicken that is made from them, an electric chair, the letters ETC, Christmas cards, a right hand that has a severed ring finger, the chemical structure of a plastic molecule, an apple, pi, zero, and infinity, and the sunglasses the author himself wears as he enters the storyline. A very original, odd but always entertaining novel. We ship within 24 hours of your purchase with a Delivery Confirmation.
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