The Vonnegut Statement: Original Essays on the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., with a Bibliography

xvii, 286 pp. Fourteen original essays by various academic critics and novelists on all facets of Vonnegut's life and work which, taken together, offer the most complete and coherent picture of the writer's career. The book deals with Vonnegut as a public personage as well as a literary figure and assesses his literary achievement. Contributors include Dan Wakefield, Robert Scholes, Joe David Bellamy, James Mellard, Jess Ritter, and other well-known writers and critics.