Loved italong with Galapagos I would describe this as one of vet's grumpier books but in the end this actually left me with a rather warm and positive feeling for me this was a strong a
Bluebeard (1987)
Others: Positive Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.
- ISBN:
- 9780385333511
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- 300 pages
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