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. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok.
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| - 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. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok.
- Breakfast of Champions, or, Goodbye, Blue Monday! is Kurt Vonnegut's seventh novel, and one of his stranger dips into metafiction. First published in 1973. Dwayne Hoover is the fabulously well-to-do owner of a Pontiac dealership. He's made his money in real estate. He's handsome and has oodles of charm. He's also been going slowly insane since his wife committed suicide. Kilgore Trout's fiction will inspire Dwayne Hoover to completely snap and go on a rampage.
- Kilgore Trout is a science-fiction writer whose works have been published as 'filling' in pornographic magazines. He lives with his parrot. One day he receives an invitation to an art convention with $1000-check and decides to go. Meanwhile, Dwayne Hoover, rich Pontiac dealer and businessman, starts getting crazy. His wife comitted suicide some time before after long history of mental illness. Dwayne has a secret affair with his secretary, Francine Pefko, and is a good employer. But eventually everything starts to collapse. Nobody gets killed, but all victims are taken to the hospital.
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| - Breakfast of Champions, or, Goodbye, Blue Monday! is Kurt Vonnegut's seventh novel, and one of his stranger dips into metafiction. First published in 1973. Dwayne Hoover is the fabulously well-to-do owner of a Pontiac dealership. He's made his money in real estate. He's handsome and has oodles of charm. He's also been going slowly insane since his wife committed suicide. Kilgore Trout is the reclusive author of various obscure science fiction stories for different, largely pornographic publishers. He has just received an invitation to speak at an arts festival down the road from Dwayne Hoover's Pontiac dealership, and he wants to appear as the ultimate representative of failure. Kilgore Trout's fiction will inspire Dwayne Hoover to completely snap and go on a rampage.
- 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. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout journeys toward Midland City to appear at a convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok.
- Kilgore Trout is a science-fiction writer whose works have been published as 'filling' in pornographic magazines. He lives with his parrot. One day he receives an invitation to an art convention with $1000-check and decides to go. Meanwhile, Dwayne Hoover, rich Pontiac dealer and businessman, starts getting crazy. His wife comitted suicide some time before after long history of mental illness. Dwayne has a secret affair with his secretary, Francine Pefko, and is a good employer. But eventually everything starts to collapse. In the finale, Hoover reads one of Trout's books which is a fictional letter sent from the Creator to the only human who has free will. The book says that every human, except for the one who the letter was sent to, is a robot and acts as his program tells him to act. Hoover takes this as a fact and starts his rampage. In the first place he attacks his homosexual son, massacring his face with piano keyboard. After that he beats violently his lover Francine, bites one of Trout's fingers off and attacks other people who gather around. Nobody gets killed, but all victims are taken to the hospital. At the end, Kilgore Trouts meets the narrator, Kurt Vonnegut himself. They talk for a while. Vonnegut explains to Kilgore Trout that he was only writer's invention. After that he dematerialises and Trout desparately asks Vonnegut to give him back his youth.
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