Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake - (audiobook) torrent

Category: Suspense
Language: English
Keywords: timequake
Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable

Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut’s 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It’s a confident final trot ’round the track by one of the greats of postwar American literature. After 40 years of practice, Vonnegut’s got his schtick down cold, and it’s a pleasure–if a slightly tame one–to watch him go through his paces one more time.

Timequake’s a mongrel; it is half novel, half memoir, the project of a decade’s worth of writer’s block, a book “that didn’t want to be written.” The premise is standard-issue Vonnegut: “…a timequake, a sudden glitch in the space-time continuum, made everybody and everything do exactly what they’d done during past decades, for good or ill, a second time…” Simultaneously, the author’s favorite tricks are on display–frequent visits with the shopworn science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a Hitchcockian appearance by the author at the book’s end, and frequent authorial opining on love, war, and society.