Hocus Pocus

Authors: Vonnegut, Kurt
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000, FIC004000, FIC052000
ISBN: 9781440673252, Related ISBNs: 0399135243, 0399135499, 0425130215, 0425161293, 144067325X
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 336,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: From the New York Times bestselling author of Slaughterhouse-Five comes an irresistible novel that combines “clever wit with keen social observation...[and] re-establishes Mr. Vonnegut’s place as the Mark Twain of our times” (Atlanta Journal & Constitution).

Here is the adventure of Eugene Debs Hartke. He’s a Vietnam veteran, a jazz pianist, a college professor, and a prognosticator of the apocalypse (and other things Earth-shattering). But that’s neither here nor there. Because at Tarkington College—where he teaches—the excrement is about to hit the air-conditioning. And it’s all Eugene’s fault.
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