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Sucker's Portfolio
Available to readers for the first time, ***Sucker’s Portfolio*** showcases a collection of seven never before published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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About Sucker's Portfolio
Available to readers for the first time, ***Sucker’s Portfolio*** showcases a collection of seven never before published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Short, sardonic, and dark, these six brief fiction stories and one non-fiction piece are consummate Vonnegut with piercing satire and an eye for life’s obscene inanity. Also available for the first time is an unfinished science-fiction short story, included in the appendix. These stories trace trivial human lives and mundane desires, which is precisely where Vonnegut’s inimitable perspective as a humanist shines, illuminating his alternating hopeful and dismal outlook, although undoubtedly focusing on the latter. Here as in his greatest novels, Vonnegut’s writing takes us to the darkest corners of the human soul and with wit and humor, manages to remind us of our potential to be something greater.
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