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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

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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