Timequake

· Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Arthur Bishop
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From the beloved author of Slaughterhouse-Five an Cat's Cradle comes Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake--“Wry and trenchant...highly entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review

According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely, or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to back up a decade to 1991, giving the world a 10-year case of deja vu, making everybody and everything do exactly what they'd done during the past decade, for good or ill, a second time.

As a character in, and a brilliant chronicler of, this bizarre event, Kurt Vonnegut casts his wicked wit and his unique perspective on life as he lived it and observed it, for more than seventy years.

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About the author

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) is the author of the novels Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973).

Lawrence Pressman has appeared in dozens of film and television roles. He is perhaps best known for playing the role of Dr. Benjamin Canfield on Doogie Howser, M.D. Some of his other roles include television appearances on the series Hawthorne, Criminal Minds, Boston Legal, and General Hospital. His film work includes roles in The Far Side of Jericho, Nine Lives, and American Pie. Lawrence read Kurt Vonnegut's Timequake for Macmillan Audio.

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