Hocus Pocus

Kurt Vonnegut

Oct 1997 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

From the New York Times bestselling author of Slaughterhouse-Five comes an irresistible novel that combines “clever wit with keen social observation...[and] re-establishes Mr. Vonnegut’s place as the Mark Twain of our times” (Atlanta Journal & Constitution).

Here is the adventure of Eugene Debs Hartke. He’s a Vietnam veteran, a jazz pianist, a college professor, and a prognosticator of the apocalypse (and other things Earth-shattering). But that’s neither here nor there. Because at Tarkington College—where he teaches—the excrement is about to hit the air-conditioning. And it’s all Eugene’s fault.

Ratings and reviews

Like Vonneguts satire; however his pessimistic "warped liberal sense of history" is unsettling. For instance: it was black slave owners who profitted from the sale of fellow blacks to plantation owners not the Dutch. Vonnegut as other liberal educators are responsible for ongoing divisiveness in this country.

Well thought out, very funny n makes excitement points

amazing

About the author

Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him, in the words of The New York Times, as “a true artist” with the publication of Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.