Breakfast of Champions
by VONNEGUT, Jr., Kurt
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good ++ - Price Clipped
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Synopsis
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set in the fictional town of Midland City, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast. " One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a normal-looking but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer and Burger Chef franchise owner who becomes obsessed with the writings of the other man, Kilgore Trout, taking them for literal truth.
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5004877
- Title
- Breakfast of Champions
- Author
- VONNEGUT, Jr., Kurt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good ++ - Price Clipped
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Delacorte
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1973
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