Bluebeard A Novel

Kurt Vonnegut

eBook - 2009

“Ranks with Vonnegut’s best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction.”—The Atlanta Journal and ConstitutionBroad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.Praise for Bluebeard“Vonnegut is at his edifying best.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer“The quicksilver mind of Vonnegut is at it again. . . . He displays all his talents—satire, irony, ridicule, ...slapstick, and even a shaggy dog story of epic proportions.”—The Cincinnati Post “[Kurt Vonnegut... more