Publisher, Caedmon / Harper Audio (March 2004)

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"Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer...A zany but moral mad scientist." —Time

Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" (The New York Times) with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, "one of the best living American writers."

Breakfast of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

"It's marvelous...he wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and loveable." —The New York Times

"Free-wheeling, wild and great... Uniquely Vonnegut." —Publishers Weekly

About the Performer: Stanley Tucci’s first co-directing, co-screenwriting and acting effort was the acclaimed Big Night; he also wrote, directed and co-produced The Imposters and directed Joe Gould's Secret. Among his many film credits are Deconstructing Harry, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Road to Perdition; he won a Golden Globe and Emmy® for his title performance in HBO's Winchell, and received a Tony® nomination for his performance in Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune.