'Kurt Vonnegut is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer' * Los Angeles Times Book ReviewAn 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday *, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favou...

'Kurt Vonnegut is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer' * Los Angeles Times Book ReviewAn 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday *, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead marriage.

Resonating with his singular voice, this is a self-portrait in writing that showcases why Kurt Vonnegut is as genius an essayist and commentator on American society as he is a novelist.