Research Catalog

Title

Love, Kurt : the Vonnegut love letters, 1941-1945 / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ; edited by Edith Vonnegut.

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt

Publication

New York : Random House, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

Vonnegut, Edith

Description

ix, 215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm

Summary

""If ever I do write anything of length--good or bad--it will be written with you in mind." Kurt Vonnegut's oldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning out her mother's attic when she stumbled upon a dusty box. Inside were more than two-hundred love letters written by Kurt to Jane, spanning the early years of their relationship: from 1941, when nineteen-year-old Kurt heads off to college, to his deployment to Europe in 1944 and the couple's marriage in 1945. The letters are full of the humor and wit that we have come to associate with Kurt Vonnegut. But they also show more private corners of his mind: Passionate and tender, the letters form an illuminating portrait of a young soldier's life in World War II as he attempts to come to grips with love and mortality. And they expose the origins of Vonnegut the writer, when Jane was the only person who believed in him, and they had no idea how celebrated he would become. A beautiful full-color collection of handwritten letters, notes, sketches, and comics, interspersed with Edith's insights and family memories, Love, Kurt is an intimate record of a young man growing into himself, a fascinating account of a writer finding his voice, and a moving testament to the life-altering experience of falling in love"--

Uniform Title

Correspondence. Selections

Alternative Title

• Correspondence.
• Vonnegut love letters, 1941-1945

Subjects

• Illustrated works
• Personal correspondence
• Love letters
• Letters
• Love-letters
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters
• Vonnegut, Kurt > Correspondence

Genre/Form

• Love letters.
• Personal correspondence.
• Illustrated works.

Contents

Introduction -- Pre-1941: Two Indianapolis families -- 1941: First love -- 1942: Junior year -- 1943: War at home -- 1944: Shipping out -- 1945: Dresden firebombing and coming home -- 1945: Back home -- Love, Woofy -- Beyond 1945.

Call Number

JFE 21-1510

ISBN

• 9780593133019
• 0593133013
• 9780593133026 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2020001524
• 40030274012

OCLC

1137195164

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt, author.

Title

Love, Kurt : the Vonnegut love letters, 1941-1945 / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ; edited by Edith Vonnegut.

Publisher

New York : Random House, [2020]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Vonnegut, Edith, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Vonnegut, Kurt. Love, Kurt. New York : Random House, [2020] 9780593133026 (DLC) 2020001525

Other Standard Identifier

40030274012

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1510