Hocus Pocus Or, What's the Hurry, Son?

Kurt Vonnegut First published 1990

About this book

From the author of Timequake, this "irresistible" novel (Cleveland Plain Dealer) tells the story of Eugene Debs Hartke-Vietnam veteran, jazz pianist, college professor, and prognosticator of the apocalypse. It's "Vonnegut's best novel in years-funny and prophetic...something special." (The Nation)

Subjects

  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • fathers and sons
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • literature
  • prisoners
  • vietnam war, 1961-1975
  • vietnam war (1961-1975) fast (ocolc)fst01431664