Kurt Vonnegut. First edition, first printing stated. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ Jacket design by Bob Giusti and author photograph by Jill Krementz. A price clipped jacket with 0573 on inside rear flap for date of publication. In mylar protective wrapper. A sharp copy of one of Vonnegut's most popular novels. Jacket with a few hints of edge wear
Hardcover: Near Fine. New York: Delacorte Press, 1973. Orange cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine. Other than former owner signature on flyleaf, no writing or markings in this beautiful book, 295 pp. Illustrated with drawings by the author.
Breakfast of Champions tells the story of the events that lead up to the meeting of Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover, the meeting itself, and the immediate aftermath. Trout is a struggling science fiction writer who, after their fateful meeting, becomes successful and wins a Nobel Prize; Hoover is a wealthy businessman who is going insane, sent over the brink by his encounter with Trout.
Vonnegut "wheels out all the latest fashionable complaints about America, her racism, her gift for destroying language, her technological greed and selfishness and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable, all at the same time" (New York Times). The book was adapted to film in 1999, directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Bruce Willis, Nick Nolte and Albert Finney as Kilgore Trout.
