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Breakfast of Champions Audiobook, by Kurt Vonnegut Play Audiobook Sample

Breakfast of Champions Audiobook

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Read By: Stanley Tucci Publisher: HarperCollins Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: July 2012 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780060764234

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

27

Longest Chapter Length:

41:21 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

02:23 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

12:04 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

12

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Publisher Description

Breakfast of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

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“Stanley Tucci delivers a superbly sly interpretation of this fare. He affects a laid-back, melancholy style, using his excellent timing and spurts of mischief to bring home the sardonic humor and irony with which the book is larded.”

— AudioFile

Quotes

  • “It's marvelous...he wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful, and lovable." 

    —  New York Times
  • “ Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer…a zany but moral mad scientist.”

    — Time
  • “Free-wheeling, wild and great…uniquely Vonnegut.”

    — Publishers Weekly

Awards

  • A Guggenheim Fellowship Awardee

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    " Very funny book so far "

    — Matthew, 9/24/2009

About Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist” with Cat’s Cradle in 1963.

About Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci is an actor, writer, director, and producer. He has directed five films and appeared in over seventy films, countless television shows, and a dozen plays on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and a spoken word Grammy; is a winner of two Golden Globes and two Emmys; and has received numerous other critical and professional awards and accolades. He is also author of two cookbooks, The Tucci Table and The Tucci Cookbook.