Kurt Vonnegut "Bluebeard" Signed First Edition/ First Printing w/COA [Fine/Fine]

Kurt Vonnegut

Verlag: Delacorte Press, 1987

Fine/Fine without any flaws. A wonderful bright clean copy without any other marks, writing or stamps. Personally signed by Kurt Vonnegut, the prolific and genre-bending author best known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction. SIGNED AND DATED ON JAN. 12th, 1995. Delacorte Press 1987. Kurt Vonnegut "Bluebeard: A Novel" Signed and dated by the author directly onto the FFEP (First Free End Paper). First Printing. "First Edition" as stated with no mention of a later printing. Hardcover book with dust-jacket. Original price of $17.95. The dust-jacket is now covered in a new archival acid-free Mylar sleeve. Dust-jacket code 1087. Fine/Fine without any flaws. Not price-clipped. Included bookseller issued COA. ABOUT THE BOOK. Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916 1988) is a 1987 novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. It is told as a first-person narrative and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared as a minor character in Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions (1973). Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale of Bluebeard popularized by Charles Perrault. Karabekian mentions this relationship once in the novel. Vonnegut rounds up several familiar themes and character types for his 13th novel: genocide, the surreality of the modern world, fluid interplay of the past and present, and the less-than-heroic figure taking center stage to tell his story. Here he elevates to narrator a minor character from Breakfast of Champions , wounded World War II veteran and abstract painter Rabo Karabekian. At the urging of enchantress-as-bully Circe Berman, Karabekian writes his "hoax autobiography." Vonnegut uses the tale to satirize art movements and the art-as-investment mind-set and to explore the shifting shape of reality. Although not among his best novels, Bluebeard is a good one and features liberal doses of his off-balance humor. ABOUT THE AUTHOR. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007) was a prolific and genre-bending American author. The novelist is known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). He is also known for his humanist beliefs and being honorary president of the American Humanist Association. He 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. He was, as Graham Greene declared, "one of the best living American writers.” Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6-117

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Titel: Kurt Vonnegut "Bluebeard" Signed First ...
Verlag: Delacorte Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Fine
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
Signiert: Signed by Author(s)
Auflage: 1st Edition