Breakfast of champions is a novel by kurt vonnegut in which kilgore trout travels to the midland city arts festival. Breakfast of champions 1973 provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of vonneguts obsessions. 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. Dwayne hoover, a midland resident, pontiac dealer and affluent figure in the city and kilgore trout, a widely published but mostly unknown science fiction author. Dismiss kurt vonnegut s modest, winking profundity at your own peril, says ron currie, jr. Vonnegut wheels out all the complaints about america and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable. Breakfast of champions is set in an america stripped of physical and spiritual beauty.
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