Bluebeard

Synopsis

"ranks with vonnegut's best and goes one step beyond. Joyous, soaring fiction. "--the atlanta journal and constitutionbroad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of rabo karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his long island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers rabo into telling his life story--and vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves. Praise for bluebeard"vonnegut is at his edifying best.