Bluebeard

By Kurt Vonnegut

Subjects: Abstract expressionism, Large type books, Autobiography, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Authorship, Artists, fiction, Artists

Description: Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.