Between Time & Timbuktu
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Bumped corners.
A dazzling collision of satire, science fiction, and surrealism, Between Time and Timbuktu is a television screenplay that weaves together some of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s most celebrated fictional universes into a single, gloriously chaotic narrative. The story follows Stony Stevenson, an everyman astronaut who wins a Tang cereal contest and is launched into the Chrono-Synclastic Infundibulum — a region of space where all truths coexist simultaneously — sending him ricocheting through a kaleidoscope of Vonnegutian realities populated by characters from Cat's Cradle, The Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse-Five, and beyond. Originally produced as a PBS special, this illustrated adaptation stands as a unique artifact in American literary history, offering a bold, metafictional showcase of Vonnegut's singular imagination. His trademark wit — sardonic, deeply humanist, and laced with a profound sorrow for the human condition — binds together what might otherwise seem like disconnected vignettes into a cohesive statement about fate, free will, and the absurdity of modern existence. For the initiated Vonnegut reader, it is a thrilling reunion; for the uninitiated, it is a perfect, disorienting introduction to one of the twentieth century's most indispensable voices.
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Format: Paperback
Published: 1975, Panther
Genre: Science fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Bumped corners.
A dazzling collision of satire, science fiction, and surrealism, Between Time and Timbuktu is a television screenplay that weaves together some of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s most celebrated fictional universes into a single, gloriously chaotic narrative. The story follows Stony Stevenson, an everyman astronaut who wins a Tang cereal contest and is launched into the Chrono-Synclastic Infundibulum — a region of space where all truths coexist simultaneously — sending him ricocheting through a kaleidoscope of Vonnegutian realities populated by characters from Cat's Cradle, The Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse-Five, and beyond. Originally produced as a PBS special, this illustrated adaptation stands as a unique artifact in American literary history, offering a bold, metafictional showcase of Vonnegut's singular imagination. His trademark wit — sardonic, deeply humanist, and laced with a profound sorrow for the human condition — binds together what might otherwise seem like disconnected vignettes into a cohesive statement about fate, free will, and the absurdity of modern existence. For the initiated Vonnegut reader, it is a thrilling reunion; for the uninitiated, it is a perfect, disorienting introduction to one of the twentieth century's most indispensable voices.