... focuses on the death of a nation and its dream, a similar theme to that of another celebrated American author - Joseph Heller. Heller tells the story of the dissolution of a generation; those who not only risked their lives in World War Two, but managed to survive to the final page of Catch-22 and ... the stories of the main character, the absurdly-named writer of the absurd, Kilgore Trout. We are never actively shown Trout's thoughts in the book, but the reader is told many of his irreverent science fiction tales, where absurdities on far-flung Alien planets parallel American life and ...

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