Bluebeard

New York: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2011. Later Printing. Paperback. NEW. 318pp. Octavo. Illustrated wraps. "Kurt Vonnegut is 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 as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963." Illustrated throughout by Vonnegut. Bluebeard ranks with Vonnegut's most imaginative works. Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who , at seventy-one, wants to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers him into telling his life story- and Vonnegut tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.