Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut · first published 1973

Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. His seventh novel, it is set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Ohio, and focuses on two characters: Dwayne Hoover, a Midland resident, Pontiac dealer and affluent figure in the city, and Kilgore Trout, a widely published but mostly unknown science fiction author. Breakfast of Champions deals with themes of free will, suicide, and race relations, among others. The novel is full of playful drawings made by the author.

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Genre:

Science Fiction, Satirical fiction, Humorous fiction, Metafiction

Original language:

American English

Year page:

1973