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Kurt vonnegut s black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured americas attention in the sirens of titan in 1959 and established him as a true artist the new york times with cats cradle in 1963. Its fifteen years since the end of wwii, and campbell is hanging out in a jail cell in israel awaiting trial. Kurt vonnegut strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. Vonnegut was later stationed at camp atturbury, just south of indianapolis, close enough to home for weekend visits. The charlotte observer welcome to the monkey house is a collection of kurt vonnegut s shorter works. Well, if we take campbells word for it, he was a spy.
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