Preface

Introduction : Storyteller, Kurt Vonnegut and the American dream

Prologue : Impossible dreams, a writer's education, 1922-1952

Player piano

The sirens of titan

Mother night

Cat's cradle

God bless you, Mr. Rosewater, or, Pearls before swine

Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death

Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!

Slapstick, or, Lonesome no more!

Jailbird

Deadeye Dick

Galápagos : a second Noah's ark

Bluebeard

Hocus pocus

Timequake

Epilogue : A man without a country, a "planetary citizen."