Hocus Pocus Or, What’s the Hurry, Son? – Kurt Vonnegut

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It is the year 2001. Eugene Debs Hartke, a West Point graduate who, in 1975, found himself in charge of the humiliating evacuation of personnel from the roof of the American embassy ‘after the excrement hit the air-conditioning’ in Vietnam, now finds himself awaiting trial for supposedly masterminding the biggest prison-break in history – the escape of 10,000 convicts from the New York state maximum security Adult Correctional Institution. How did a good soldier who never used profane language come to be in such a mess? Time and luck. Un-knowlingly fathering an illegitimate son with the young female war correspondent from the Des Moines Register on the way hoke form Saigon; marrying a pretty and personable young woman whose booby-trapped genes a re primed to fire her off into insanity; becoming a respected teacher of the terminally ineducable pupils of Tarkington College; remarking innocently that the dollar no longer ranks as a basic worked currency, having been supplanted by the Japanese Yen and fellatio – these things may, or may not, have had something to do with it…With Swifian satire and gonzo wit, Kurt Vonnegut juggles his favourite themes in a novel as fresh and brilliantly off-beat as anything he’s written.
Hocus Pocus is, quite simply, vintage Vonnegut.

Condition: Used like new. Clean no inscriptions or marks on the pages. First Edition. Dust Wrapper like new, an excellent copy. See OUR OWN picture of the book for Quality Control purposes.

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SKU: 9780224029179 Category: Title: Hocus Pocus Or, What's the Hurry, Son?
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Year: 1990
ISBN10: 0224029177
ISBN13: 9780224029179
Condition: Mint
Format: Hardcover
Inventory No: 795

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It is the year 2001. Eugene Debs Hartke, a West Point graduate who, in 1975, found himself in charge of the humiliating evacuation of personnel from the roof of the American embassy ‘after the excrement hit the air-conditioning’ in Vietnam, now finds himself awaiting trial for supposedly masterminding the biggest prison-break in history – the escape of 10,000 convicts from the New York state maximum security Adult Correctional Institution. How did a good soldier who never used profane language come to be in such a mess? Time and luck. Un-knowlingly fathering an illegitimate son with the young female war correspondent from the Des Moines Register on the way hoke form Saigon; marrying a pretty and personable young woman whose booby-trapped genes a re primed to fire her off into insanity; becoming a respected teacher of the terminally ineducable pupils of Tarkington College; remarking innocently that the dollar no longer ranks as a basic worked currency, having been supplanted by the Japanese Yen and fellatio – these things may, or may not, have had something to do with it…With Swifian satire and gonzo wit, Kurt Vonnegut juggles his favourite themes in a novel as fresh and brilliantly off-beat as anything he’s written.
Hocus Pocus is, quite simply, vintage Vonnegut.

Condition: Used like new. Clean no inscriptions or marks on the pages. First Edition. Dust Wrapper like new, an excellent copy. See OUR OWN picture of the book for Quality Control purposes.

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Weight 0.62 kg
Dimensions 24.1 × 16.4 × 2.5 cm

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