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Happy Birthday, Wanda June

A Play

A Play

By Kurt Vonnegut

By Kurt Vonnegut

By Kurt Vonnegut

By Kurt Vonnegut

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May 05, 2020 | ISBN 9780385283861

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Mar 03, 2020 | ISBN 9780593229415

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    About Happy Birthday, Wanda June

    “Richly and often pertinently funny [with] a sure instinct for the carefully considered irrelevance . . . a great deal of incidental hilarity [and] inspired idiocy.”—The New York Times

    Happy Birthday Wanda June was Kurt Vonnegut’s first play, which premiered in New York in 1970 and was then adapted into a film in 1971. It is a darkly humorous and searing examination of the excesses of capitalism, patriotism, toxic masculinity, and American culture in the post-Vietnam War era. Featuring behind-the-scenes photographs from the original stage production, this play captures Vonnegut’s brilliantly distinct perspective unlike we have ever seen it before. 

    “A great artist.”—The Cincinnati Enquirer 

    About Happy Birthday, Wanda June

    “Richly and often pertinently funny [with] a sure instinct for the carefully considered irrelevance . . . a great deal of incidental hilarity [and] inspired idiocy.”—The New York Times

    Happy Birthday Wanda June was Kurt Vonnegut’s first play, which premiered in New York in 1970 and was then adapted into a film in 1971. It is a darkly humorous and searing examination of the excesses of capitalism, patriotism, toxic masculinity, and American culture in the post-Vietnam War era. Featuring behind-the-scenes photographs from the original stage production, this play captures Vonnegut’s brilliantly distinct perspective unlike we have ever seen it before. 

    “A great artist.”—The Cincinnati Enquirer 

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    About Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut’s humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist” (The New York Times) with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene… More about Kurt Vonnegut

    About Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut’s humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist” (The New York Times) with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene… More about Kurt Vonnegut

    Product Details

    Category: Performing Arts | Military Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Dial Press Trade Paperback
    May 05, 2020 | 208 Pages | 5-1/4 x 8 | ISBN 9780385283861

    Category: Performing Arts | Military Fiction

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by The Dial Press
    Mar 03, 2020 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9780593229415
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