Title: Maturity and breadth under a beguilingly simple surface.
Product review: Kurt Vonnegut allows his warts to show - without apology - as he explores the influence of his German Protestant origins, his attitudes to war, living, dying, creating, loving, and what the word "family" might mean in the next millennium.Some of it is so beautiful amd moving that I cried. Some seemed irritating and facile... until I began to see that this is an anthemic book, the work of a mature artist with something to say, who is conserving his precious energy by employing the icons from his own history and past work (notably, the views of the character Kilgore Trout, Vonnegut's alter-ego) in a slyly provocative short-hand.The book is a kind of fugue, or perhaps a good piece of American knitwear designed and woven by an iconoclastic, humane and gifted man.I predict it could become a cult classic, but dearly hope it gets far wider exposure. The book deserves the attention and so, my friends, does he.
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