God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine

by Kurt Vonnegut

Hardcover, 217 pages

English language

Published May 13, 1991 by Henry Holth & Co (J).

ISBN:: 978-0-8050-1732-8

(16 reviews)

Eliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is Kurt Vonnegut’s funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.

2 editions

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5 stars

This book was a LOT of fun to read--laugh-out-loud funny! Vonnegut always pokes fun at human nature, and this novel focuses on a family with an obscene amount of inherited wealth, the Rosewater Foundation. Elliot Rosewater is the head of the foundation, and he has a heart of gold--and is considered insane by the rest of his family, and at least very unusual by others. It's a parody of society's attitudes towards money: those who have it, and those who don't. Oh, and a character from Slaughterhouse Five makes a reappearance:)