Hocus Pocus

Kurt Vonnegut

Hocus Pocus
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
6 December 1991
Pages
288
ISBN
9780099877103

Hocus Pocus

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Some get all the luck - but not Eugene Debs Hartke. Ex-Vietnam vet, ex-college professor, and now a TB-stricken inmate at Tarkington State Reformatory, his life has been warped by one ludicrous farce after another. Here, on scraps of paper pilfered from the prison library, he recounts his own story for posterity, revealing the hypocrisy and injustices of a world that just doesn’t want him to thrive.

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