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First edition of the author's fifth novel, a classic satire, which introduces the reader to Kilgore Trout. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed "Kurt Vonnegut Feb. 26 2000" on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Murray Tinkelman. A very sharp example. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is author's fifth novel and comic masterpiece. "A brilliantly funny satire on almost everything" (Conrad Aiken). It was adapted as a musical in 1979, marking the first collaboration of composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman.

'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater' is a novel about Eliot Rosewater, who inherits a fortune and struggles with moral dilemmas as he tries to do good for the people of Rosewater, Indiana.