An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.

库特·冯内古特的短篇黑色幽默小说集

书中的两部作品是美国后现代派作家冯内古特在七十年代的佳作。《冠军早餐》是一部荒诞的反传统小说。读者可以在这一过程中看到作者以诙谐、夸张的语言叙述的一个疯狂世界。作者自绘的插图也是小说的一大特色。《囚鸟》以主人公自述形式，描写了一个三次出入监狱的老犯人的一生，中间穿插了大萧条、二次大战、朝鲜战争、麦卡锡主义、水门事件等历史插曲，以黑色幽默手法，嘲讽社会现实，收到特殊的社会效果。

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.