Jason says: Only Vonnegut could write something that tightrope walks from bleak to compassionate to hilarious, sometimes all within the same paragraph. This might sneakily be his best novel, which is really saying something. (Nobel laureate Doris Lessing once noted that it doesn't get the credit it deserves because, "Paperbacks don't get reviewed, so it has been ordained." Go off, queen!)
"Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist."--Time
Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.
"A great artist."--Cincinnati Enquirer
"A shaking up in the kaleidoscope of laughter . . . Reading Vonnegut is addictive!"--Commonweal
Jason says: Only Vonnegut could write something that tightrope walks from bleak to compassionate to hilarious, sometimes all within the same paragraph. This might sneakily be his best novel, which is really saying something. (Nobel laureate Doris Lessing once noted that it doesn't get the credit it deserves because, "Paperbacks don't get reviewed, so it has been ordained." Go off, queen!)
"Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist."--Time
Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.
"A great artist."--Cincinnati Enquirer
"A shaking up in the kaleidoscope of laughter . . . Reading Vonnegut is addictive!"--Commonweal
Jason says: Only Vonnegut could write something that tightrope walks from bleak to compassionate to hilarious, sometimes all within the same paragraph. This might sneakily be his best novel, which is really saying something. (Nobel laureate Doris Lessing once noted that it doesn't get the credit it deserves because, "Paperbacks don't get reviewed, so it has been ordained." Go off, queen!)
"Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist."--Time
Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.
"A great artist."--Cincinnati Enquirer
"A shaking up in the kaleidoscope of laughter . . . Reading Vonnegut is addictive!"--Commonweal
