Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980's Kurt Vonnegut
In this memoir of the past decade, Kurt Vonnegut examines issues and events, both personal and cultural, ranging freely through time, fusing memory and imagination. The subjects range from a death in the family, Vonnegut's own brush with suicidal depression or the future of the planet; Ronald Reagan, Salman Rushdie or Andrew Loyd Webber; unicorns, Alcoholics Anonymous and his keen interest in discovering whether there is indeed a fate worse than death.