# Kurt Vonnegut: Letters

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- Book: [Kurt Vonnegut: Letters](https://www.bookquiver.com/kurt-vonnegut/kurt-vonnegut-letters) ([Kurt Vonnegut: Letters.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kurt-vonnegut/kurt-vonnegut-letters.md))
- Authors: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.bookquiver.com/kurt-vonnegut)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4816-174-4
- Published: 2012-10-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

This collection of Vonnegut’s letters is the autobiography he never wrote – from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life’. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: ‘I am an American fad—of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop’. Like Vonnegut’s books, his letters make you think, they make you outraged and they make you laugh. Written over a sixty-year period, and never published before, these letters are alive with the unique point of view that made Vonnegut one of the most original writers in American fiction.