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From A Kindle World blog.  More details at the site.

“The New York Times’s Art Beat writer, Julie Bosman, wrote a few days ago that long before Vonnegut became famous, the Saturday Evening Post in the 1940s rejected his 22,000-word novella, “Basic Training,” written under the pseudonym of Mark Harvey.

He went on to write Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, and many other famous works.

The publisher, RosettaBooks, chose the novella from “a trove of his unpublished work” remaining in Indiana after he died in 2007.  Vonnegut’s literary executor had made available “hundreds of other works” (one can wonder what will happen with those).

RosettaBooks describes this work as one with Vonnegut’s “trademark grand themes: the lunacy of kings, the improbability of existence, the yearling hero’s struggle with duty and love and the meaning of heroism.” “

(Via A Kindle World blog.)

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