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Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut

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Series (with order)

Canonical Title

Breakfast of Champions

Original publication date

1973-05

1973

People/Characters

Important places

Midland City, Ohio, USA

Cohoes, New York, USA

Los Angeles, California, USA

Bermuda

New York, New York, USA

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Important events

Related movies

Breakfast of Champions (1999 ∙ IMDb)

Awards and honors

New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1973)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006 Edition)

Guardian 1000 (Comedy)

Epigraph

When he hath tried me,
I shall come forth as gold.
-JOB

Dedication

IN MEMORY OF PHEOBY HURTY,
who comforted me in Indianapolis-
during the Great Depression.

First words

This is the tale of a meeting of two lonely, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

Quotations

Roses are red and ready for plucking; you’re sixteen and ready for high school.

Here is a picture of a wide open beaver.

Sometimes I wonder about the creator of the universe.

Last words

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Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

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