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 | Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner | |
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| Publisher: Putnam
http://www.us.penguingroup.com ISBN:0399155082 Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Social Commentary Release date: April 2008 Format: Hardcover Pages: 240 Price: $24.95 | |||
| This is a terrific collection by one of the greatest commentators on human condition in the world since WW II. As always Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., uses wry humor to rip into those warmongers who always send someone else to die. The anthology contains nonfiction, like the letter he sent to his dad in Indianapolis in which the GI grunt explains he is fortunate to escape the firebombing of Dresden in 1945 and “Wailing Shall be In All the Streets”, where he discusses his POW job of burying the dead in Dresden. The short story fictions are also haunting, as the title story advocates that good can never win over evil because good needs evil to exist, just as the world can never be at peace for that “Great Day" would lead to war; the author makes the case that violence is in the human DNA; even the very young look to fight. This anthology is a fitting final tribute by the late great author who throughout displays his droll sense of the paradox that makes up the “Guns and Butter” of life and death on planet Earth. | |||
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