A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country

Infobox Book
name = A Man Without a Country


image_caption = Cover of "A Man"
author = Kurt Vonnegut
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = USA
language = English
series =
subject =
genre =
publisher = Seven Stories Press
release_date = September 15, 2005
media_type = Print
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isbn = ISBN 1-58322-713-X
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"A Man Without a Country" is a collection of essays published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut. The extremely short essays that comprise this book deal with topics ranging from the importance of humor, to problems with modern technology, to Vonnegut's opinions on the differences between men and women. Most prevalent in the text, however, are those essays which elucidate Vonnegut's opinions on politics, and the issues in modern American society, often from a decidedly humanistic perspective [cite news
first = Erik | last = Grayson
title = Review of "A Man Without a Country," by Kurt Vonnegut | date = Fall 2006
publisher = Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture
] . In January 2007, Vonnegut indicated that he intended this to be his final work, a statement which proved to be correct with his death in April 2007. [cite news
first = Rick | last = Callaha
title = Indianapolis honors literary native son | date = 2007-01-14
publisher = Delaware News-Journal (reprinting from the Associated Press)
] This would stand true until a short-story collection of his unpublished work would be published posthumously in 2008 entitled Armageddon in Retrospect.

Note

*Published by Bloomsbury in the UK, ISBN 0-7475-8406-0

External links

* [http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_5.3/grayson_vonnegut.htm Review of "A Man Without a Country" in "Logos"]
* [http://fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2007/09/man-without-country-by-kurt-vonnegut.html Review of "A Man Without a Country" in Fifty Books Project 2008]

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