God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Dell 2929)

190, [2] pp. Eliot Rosewater, drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is the hero of this darkly-humored comic masterpiece. In the stingingly irreverent story of a man filled with total love for humanity and tormented by a maddeningly sane vision of society, the author has created a wild, brilliant, etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, waste and folly of modern man. Once again Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., has written a novel that stands head, heart and funnybone above all others on the scene today.