About This Book
Timequake is Vonnegut at his most nakedly autobiographical — a strange, shaggy hybrid of memoir and fiction he called his last novel. The premise: a wrinkle in time forces the universe to rerun the decade from 1991 to 2001, with everyone reliving their choices without the ability to change anything. The novel is really a loose scaffolding for Vonnegut's digressive genius — anecdotes, complaints, eulogies for friends, and the recurring presence of alter ego Kilgore Trout. It's uneven by design, and somehow more moving for it. A farewell letter dressed up as a novel.
As Vonnegut's farewell to fiction, Timequake pairs naturally with the early promise of Bagombo Snuff Box and the political fury of Hocus Pocus—bookends to a career spent trying to make America laugh at itself.