who spares no one from his seething gaze
each of us can achieve life to the fullest -- until it overflows
It appears to have been written in the late 1940s and is therefore Vonnegut’s first ever novella
after laying bare its tenants' past in The Family
their story an epic saga of self-belief and the pursuit of dreams
Love and Shame and Love sisters first who spares no one fromAlexander Popper can't stop remembering. Four years old when his father tossed him into Lake Michigan, he was told, Sink or swim, kid. In his mind, he's still bobbing in that frigid water. The rest of this novel's vivid cast of characters also struggle to remain afloat: Popper's mother, stymied by an unhappy marriage, seeks solace in the relentless energy of Chicago; his brother, Leo, shadow boss of the family, retreats into books; paternal