Bluebeard

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Ranks with Vonnegut's best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction. -The Atlanta Journal and ConstitutionBroad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story-and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.Praise for Bluebeard Vonnegut is at his edifying best. -The Philadelphia Inquirer The quicksilver mind of Vonnegut is at it again. . . . He displays all his talents-satire, irony, ridicule, slapstick, and even a shaggy dog story of epic proportions. -The Cincinnati Post [Kurt Vonnegut is] a voice you can trust to keep poking holes in the social fabric. -San Francisco Chronicle It has the qualities of classic Bosch and Slaughterhouse Vonnegut. . . ....

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