Breakfast of Champions (Vintage Publishing)

'A great deal of wit and playfulness... An entire universe of disorder is distilled', (Guardian) In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.

'Brilliant... It seems, at times, as if Voltaire has returned to satirise the horrors of plastic, disposable America', (Sunday Times) 'Outrageous, witty, thought-provoking, unputdownable, scintillating, invigorating, nobling, enlightening and masterly...

After Vonnegut, everything else seems a bit tame', (Spectator)