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Master of post-modern satire, Kurt Vonnegut patterns trajectories of sex, spite, crime and power in this kaleidoscopic novel
Title: Hocus Pocus
Original: Hocus Pocus
Category: Roman
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Vintage
Year: 2011
Pgs: 288
Weight: 0.200 kg
ISBN: 9780099877103
This book is in English
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Master of post-modern satire, Kurt Vonnegut patterns trajectories of sex, spite, crime and power in this kaleidoscopic novel
'Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country' - New York Times Book Review
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Master of post-modern satire, Kurt Vonnegut patterns trajectories of sex, spite, crime and power in this kaleidoscopic novel
