Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical ecplorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device--a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retaces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events her in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.
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