Timequake

At the pinnacle of his phenomenal career, one of America’s wittiest and most unconventional writers has re-invented fiction. Over the years, Kurt Vonnegut has tickled our funny bones and tugged at our heart strings with tongue-in-cheek appraisals of society’s foibles and absurdities. Now, his latest creation is a witty memoir of observations about life, as he has lived and observed it, for more than seven decades. What if a bored universe decided to stop expanding for awhile and back us all up to the year 1991? Imagine reliving an entire unremarkable decade of déjà-vu without the benefit of free will. Picture the havoc when reruns are over, and people, free to choose again, have forgotten how. It seems that a book whose three protagonists are the author, his alter ego, and a conscious universe would be a challenge to read aloud, but narrator Norman Dietz does a remarkable job of making it sound easy. Be prepared for laughter and tears once again.