Norman Mushari schemes to steal the fortune of this novel's title character, who introduces Billy Pilgrim to the works of Kilgore Trout in a hospital ward in Slaughterhouse-Five.
A Senator in this novel urges America to "return to a true Free Enterprise System, which has the sink-or-swim justice of Caesar Augustus built into it" in a speech about the "Golden Age of Rome." This novel contrasts the virile fisherman Harry Pena with the spiritually sick inhabitants of Pisquontuit, such as the bored lesbian Amanita Buntline. The wife of its protagonist is diagnosed with "Samaritrophia," or indifference to people less fortunate than herself, after her husband sees a firestorm in Indianapolis and opens an office devoted to helping the poor. Norman Mushari schemes to steal the fortune of this novel's title character, who introduces Billy Pilgrim to the works of Kilgore Trout in a hospital ward in Slaughterhouse-Five. Named for Eliot, a millionaire searching for selfless love, for 10 points, identify this novel by Kurt Vonnegut.
A Senator in this novel urges America to "return to a true Free Enterprise System, which has the sink-or-swim justice of Caesar Augustus built into it" in a speech about the "Golden Age of Rome."
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater