Hocus Pocus (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1940-2001
- Setting: Chiefly Scipio, New York
- Principal Characters: Eugene Debs Hartke, Alton Darwin, Melanie And Eugene Debs Hartke, Jr., Jason Wilder, Tex Johnson, Zuzu, Jack Patton, Lieutenant Colonel Sam Wakefield, Hiroshi Matusmoto
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Socialism, War, Economics, Fantasy, Photography or photographers, Ecology, Paranoia, Vietnam or Vietnamese people, Hedonism, Motorcycles or motorbikes
- Locales: Scipio, NY
Kurt Vonnegut is back. With Hocus Pocus he returns full-size and industrial strength to the powers of his best early work: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother Night (1962), Cat’s Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse- Five (1969), Breakfast of Champions (1973), and Slapstick (1976). By comparison, the four intervening novels—Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), Galapagos (1985), and Bluebeard (1987)—seemed slight, single-minded, imaginatively anemic. Now, however, they begin to look less like unsuccessful novels...
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