What is the subtitle of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five?

The subtitle of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death.

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What Kurt Vonnegut novel features science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout?

Science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout is a recurring character in Kurt Vonnegut’s books, including God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Breakfast of Champions (1973), and Jailbird (1979).

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What was Anne Tyler’s first novel?

Anne Tyler’s first novel was If Morning Ever Comes (1965), written in her early twenties.

Born in 1941, Tyler was respected by critics but did not become widely known until Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant in 1982.

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Who wrote The Bell Jail?

The novel of attempted suicide and recovery The Bell Jail was written by Sylvia Plath, but was first published under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas in 1963.

It did not appear under the author’s name until 1966.

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How many members were there in Mary McCarthy’s Group?

Mary McCarthy’s 1963 novel The Group concerns eight women students at Vassar.

Their names are: Dottie, Helena, Kay, Lakey, Libby, Pokey, Polly, and Priss.

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What is the second movie mentioned by name in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer (1961)?

The second movie mentioned by name in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer (1961) is The Third Man (1949), directed by Carol Reed.

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What is the first movie mentioned by name in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer (1961)?

The first movie mentioned by name in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer is Stagecoach (1939), directed by John Ford.

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What is meant by the title of William Burroughs’s novel Naked Lunch (1959)?

The title to the drug-induced stream-of-consciousness narrative Naked Lunch means a “frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork” and is repulsed by it.

The title was suggested to the author William Burroughs by Jack Kerouac.

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What is the name of the minor-league team in Mark Harris’s Bang the Drum Slowly (1956)?

The name of the minor-league team in Mark Harris’s Bang the Drum Slowly is The New York Mammoths.

The novel’s narrator is Henry Wiggen, star pitcher for the Mammoths.

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How does Bernard Malamud’s The Natural (1952) end?

Unlike the 1988 film adaptation, in which Roy Hobbs wins the World Series with a pyrotechnic home run, Bernard Malamud’s original story The Natural has the slugger, preoccupied with sex and materialism, throw the final game of the World Series.

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