This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a counter-culture classic.A satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion Jay McInerneyThe closest thing we had to a Voltaire Tom WolfeThe time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that the world is not what it appears to be. He is not only entertaining, he is electrocuting The New York Times