Understanding Kurt Vonnegut
by William Rodney Allen
192 pages· 1991
About
LITERARY STUDIES: FROM C 1900 -. This is a critical companion to Vonnegut's early novels. "Understanding Kurt Vonnegut" is a critical analysis of Vonnegut's fiction as a point of entrance for students and general readers alike. In close readings of Vonnegut's novels, William Rodney Allen examines the distinctive stylistic, thematic, and formally innovative elements that earned Vonnegut (1922-2007) a mass following, especially among young readers, as well as critical respect among scholars.
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