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"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads
the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt
who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness,
humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this
challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy,
it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-
Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through
(sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-
like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-
citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the
work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles,
Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web
of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for
Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his
other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. --This text
refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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