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Timequake

Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: New York : Berkley Books, ©1998.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : English : 1st Berkley trade pbk. edView all editions and formats
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There's been a timequake. And everyone--even you--must live the decade between February 17, 1991 and February 17, 2001 over again. The trick is that we all have to do exactly the same things as we did the first time-minute by minute, hour by hour, year by year, betting on the wrong horse again, marrying the wrong person again. Why? You'll have to ask the old science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout. This was all his  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Alternative histories (Fiction)
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN: 0425164349 9780425164341
OCLC Number: 966870116
Description: xvii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Responsibility: Kurt Vonnegut.

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After the universe decides to back up ten years and all humans must live through the 1990s again, author Kurt Vonnegut finds himself trying to write a book called Timequake, which he knows he will  Read more...

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