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Könyv Lonesome Again M Maurice Hawkesworth

Lonesome Again

Vonnegut and the America I Left with $400

Szerző: M Maurice Hawkesworth
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Wedgwood Press
Elérhetőség: Várható készletfeltöltés
Küldés 18. 08. 2026
5 420 Ft
In 1963, Kurt Vonnegut gave America the granfalloon: a group that announces belonging without requir...

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Szerző
M Maurice Hawkesworth
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2026
oldal
148
EAN
9783692440361
ISBN
3692440367
Enbook ID
53523087
Kiadó
Wedgwood Press
Súly
190
Méretek
152 x 229 x 9

Teljes leírás

In 1963, Kurt Vonnegut gave America the granfalloon: a group that announces belonging without requiring much of its members. Thirteen years later, in Slapstick, he imagined a damaged president attempting the opposite-giving every citizen an artificial extended family and declaring the country "Lonesome No More!"

M. Maurice Hawkesworth reads those novels against the America he knew: Indianapolis summers beside the RCA plant, the collapse of Midwestern industry, leaving the country with four hundred dollars, and the modern transformation of loneliness into politics, algorithms, and permanent affiliation.

Part memoir, part literary criticism, and part cultural diagnosis, Lonesome Again asks what separates a community from a crowd, a family from a label, and genuine belonging from the systems that merely promise it.

Vonnegut did not predict the modern world. He recognized the pressures that would produce it.