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Timequake

Kurt Vonnegut

1997217 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1997
first published
  • 1997G.P. Putnam's · 219 pages · ENGISBN 9780399137372
  • 1997Jonathan Cape · 219 pages · ENGISBN 9780224036405
  • 1998Wheeler Pub. · 217 pages · ENGISBN 9781568955568
  • 1998Vintage · 217 pages · ENGISBN 9780099275367
  • 1998Berkley Books · 250 pages · ENGISBN 9780425164341
  • 2009Penguin USA, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781440666865
  • 2001Tandem Library · ENGISBN 9780613281034
  • 1997Putnam AdultISBN 9780399138980

On February 13th, 2001, according to Vonnegut, the universe will tire momentarily of expanding forever. What's the point? Maybe it would be more fun to shrink for a change, and have a reunion of all the stuff back where it began. Then it could make a great big BANG again. It will shrink back to February 17th, 1991, but will then decide that expansion is the way to go, after all. As time marches on once more to 2001, though, Vonnegut and Trout and everybody else and everything else will have to do exactly what they did the first time through the decade, for good or ill: marry the wrong person, bet on the wrong horse. Whatever! Ten years of deja vu all over again! At least deja vu doesn't cause physical injury and property damage.

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