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Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

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A characteristic of this short nonfiction is that Vonnegut frequently includes himself directly, as he starts to do in his novels from the 1960s. He may write reportage, but he is open about who is reporting and how he feels about what he is reporting. One of the most interesting aspects of this
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material for the reader is the emergent relationship between observer-writer and subject. By revealing his attitudes to the subject he reveals much of himself. Vonnegut's association with the short story was far from over, however, and he later prepared and introduced a new collection,
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yacht crewing for their captain, Frank Wirtanen (whose name had been borrowed for the character of an American intelligence officer in
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Dear Reader: The title of this book is composed of three words from my novel
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We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works
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Kurt Vonnegut
Delacorte Press
1974
Print
ISBN
978-0-385-33381-8
essays
reviews
travel accounts
human interest stories
Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle
wampeter
Holy Grail
Foma
granfalloon
Massachusetts
Florida
Kennedy
Mother Night
I.S. Shklovskii
Carl Sagan
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Fortitude
Life Magazine
Tony Costa
Herman Hesse
Dan Wakefield
Going All the Way

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