Signed Family Letters
$35,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
np: np, 1930. First edition. Custom box. Very Good. RARE AND REVEALING COLLECTION OF FAMILY LETTERS WRITTEN BY KURT VONNEGUT. This collection of 12 letters, most of which are addressed to Vonnegut's father, brother (Bernard), sister-in-law (Bow), and family as a whole, chronicle the life, rise, and development of one of America's most beloved writers. Taken together, these letters - in which he begins to test the possibilities of a career in writing - are a unique glimpse into Vonnegut's psychic and writerly interior, and bubble with the experimentality, imagination, and distinctive prose that would define Vonnegut's most famous works in the decades to follow. Housed together in handsome archival case. II. Letters 1-2: EARLY LIFE (Early 1930s) "Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation" (Dinitia Smith, New York Times). These first two letters are written by a young Kurt Vonnegut to his father. Born into a German American Midwest family in 1922, Vonnegut's parents suffered enormously from the effects of the Great Depression; his father's renowned architecture firm got hit hard, and his mother succumbed to drug and alcohol abuse, eventually taking her own life in 1944. The Great-Depression-era pessimism--as well as the general climate of social and political unrest in which young Vonnegut came of age--wou
- Publisher: np
- Year: 1930
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: unknown
Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.