Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Broad 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 storyand Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart hammering truth about mans careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.

If your mother was missing

he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context

But winter makes things visible

a jail inmate who observes and Investigation

slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world

How can we live a fulfilling life

and a ruthless nightclub owner the police are convinced is guilty of the murder

historic figure and living presence

whatever the cost

One is dying to meet you again

in 1974 and was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters

Vivacious and plainspoken