Breakfast of Champions

by Robert Egan and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

In story theatre style this play tells of the fateful meeting between Dwayne Hoover, Pontiac dealer, and Kilgore Trout, Vonnegut's alter ego, in Midland City, where Dwayne bites off Trout's finger.

• ISBN13: 9780573605734
• Publish Date: 7 April 2017 (first published 15 March 1974)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Samuel French Ltd
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 106
• Language: English

Reviews

[Michael @ Knowledge Lost]

Breakfast of Champions: or Goodbye Blue Monday by Kurt Vonnegut is a dark comedy on racism, war, consumerism and greed in America during the 70’s. The book follows two loners, an unknown Sci-Fi writer named Kilgore Trout and a car dealer owner Dwayne Hoover. Both their lives are intertwined by one of the books written by Trout and read by the already plagued with “bad chemicals”, Dwayne Hoover. The book, which Hoover believed was factual, sent him into a violent rampage. Vonnegut is a master satirist and always manages to write some unusual stories, though comparing this to Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions comes up short. It was enjoyable to read, weird in a lot of parts (I really didn’t need to know everyone characters penis size), but overall worth the read.