God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: 1964-1965, with flashbacks to the period 1953-1963
- Setting: Rosewater, Indiana, and Pisquontuit, Rhode Island
- Principal Characters: Eliot Rosewater, Sylvia, Lister Ames Rosewater, Fred Rosewater, Kilgore Trout, Norman Mushari
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
- Locales: Indiana
The Novel
The focal point of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is Eliot Rosewater’s sustained effort to comfort the unredeemable poor. Son of the famous Senator Lister Rosewater, born to great wealth, and with a Harvard University Ph.D. in international law, Eliot gradually comes to reject the values and traditions of his family and turns heavily to drink as he approaches middle age. One day, he leaves his New York town house and returns dramatically to the one-time family seat, Rosewater, Indiana, where he eventually opens a wretched office in a shotgun attic above a...
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