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Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut · 1973 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

A Midwestern Pontiac dealer is going quietly insane, and a science-fiction writer nobody reads is travelling to the same town's arts festival carrying a book that will tell him he is the only creature in the universe with free will. The author draws felt-tip pictures of everything mentioned, supplies the characters' measurements, and finally walks into the story to deal with the people he made. A fiftieth-birthday present to himself, split off from the manuscript that became Slaughterhouse-Five.

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