Tracey's review
Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
Tracey's review
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
Tracey's review
rating:
My fiction choice for the KV Memorial Reading Project [May 2007]... not one of my favorites. I can't quite recall if I'd read it before or not; but I'm not certain I'd read it again.
Howard W. Campbell - WWII war criminal but was in reality a deep-cover spy for the US. His vitriolic Anti-Semite radio shows were admired both by the Germans and the KKK-types who contacted him after the war - including "The Black Fuhrer" and a defrocked Catholic priest. He is rediscovered by the authorities and sent to Israel for trial - telling his story here.
It had a couple of moments here & there, but was too much a bitter coating around a sweet pill for my tastes.
Howard W. Campbell - WWII war criminal but was in reality a deep-cover spy for the US. His vitriolic Anti-Semite radio shows were admired both by the Germans and the KKK-types who contacted him after the war - including "The Black Fuhrer" and a defrocked Catholic priest. He is rediscovered by the authorities and sent to Israel for trial - telling his story here.
It had a couple of moments here & there, but was too much a bitter coating around a sweet pill for my tastes.
