Timequake (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Novel and memoir
- Time of Work: 1922-2010
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Marie Cox Vonnegut, Jill Krementz, Bernie Vonnegut, Alice (Allie) Vonnegut, Alex Vonnegut, Kilgore Trout, Dudley Prince, Monica Pepper
- Genres: Long fiction, Memoir, Science fiction
- Subjects: Suicide, Authors or writers, Autobiography, Writing, Death or dying, Life and death, Mortality, Predestination, Literacy
- Locales: United States
Kurt Vonnegut has come unstuck in time.
If this, his last book, proves to be true, be prepared for a nasty jolt at 2:27 p.m. on February 13, 2001. At that moment, the universe will suffer a crisis in self-confidence and stop expanding. The result will be a “timequake,” in which Vonnegut and everyone and everything else will go back to February 17, 1991. Then the universe will resume expanding, and everyone will relive the next ten years exactly as they did the first time. However, although everyone will know precisely what is coming, no one will be able to do a thing about...
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