Title: A piquant farewell to a treasured friend
Product review: I have mixed emotions about Vonnegut's newest and, as he says himself, last novel. In it he states that what we are reading is actually a rewrite of his original that is referred to as "Timequake 1". After finding that TQ1 "didn't work", he decided to scrap most of it in favor of a memoir/novel/ essay that would be his answer to a sports hero's final season.I live in Chicago, and I'll mourn Michal Jordan's retirement much less than this old friend's, whom I've invited into my home time and again over the decades. I only hope that he'll change his mind and maybe even give us a chance to decide for ourselves the merits of Timequake 1, and that perhaps he'll throw a collection of short stories our way. I just finished the book, autographed at a recent signing here; and now feel that a friend has left forever. That is why I gave the book a mediocre rating, 'cause "I feel like something the cat drug in". Ray Schmitz III
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