{"product_id":"timequake-isbn-9780425164341","title":"Timequake","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse-Five\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBreakfast of Champions\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCat's Cradle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt 2:27pm on February 13th of the year 2001, the Universe suffered a crisis in self-confidence. Should it go on expanding indefinitely? What was the point?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's been a timequake. And everyone—even you—must live the decade between February 17, 1991 and February 17, 2001 over again. The trick is that we all have to do exactly the same things as we did the first time—minute by minute, hour by hour, year by year, betting on the wrong horse again, marrying the wrong person again. Why? You'll have to ask the old science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout. This was all his idea.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eTimequake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] quirky mix of fiction and biography...This is the indispensable Vonnegut.”—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wry and trenchant...highly entertaining.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“His funniest book since \u003ci\u003eBreakfast of Champions\u003c\/i\u003e...There are nuggets of Vonnegutian wisdom throughout.”—\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTimequake\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel by, and starring, Kurt Vonnegut...What Vonnegut does, which no one can do better, is give a big postmodern shrug...You've got to love him.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Humorous, sardonic...\u003ci\u003eTimequake\u003c\/i\u003e makes for irresistible reading that's loaded with more important truths than it lets on...Moralizing has never been funnier.”—\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Part autobiography, part meditation, part satire...Vonnegut is at his best.”—\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal \u0026amp; Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKurt Vonnegut\u003c\/b\u003e was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in \u003ci\u003eThe Sirens of Titan\u003c\/i\u003e in 1959 and established him, in the words of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, as “a true artist” with the publication of \u003ci\u003eCat’s Cradle\u003c\/i\u003e in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.","brand":"Berkley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300324626661,"sku":"NP9780425164341","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780425164341.jpg?v=1767742662","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/timequake-isbn-9780425164341","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}