Audible.com, Amazon’s audiobook outpost, has released a new audiobook edition of Kurt Vonnegut‘s controversial titles, Breakfast of Champions, read by actor John Malkovich.
The story is about the “meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast”: One, an unknown science fiction writer named, Theodore Sturgeon; the other an automobile dealer named Kilgore Trout.
“America, when this novel was published, was in the throes of Nixon, Watergate, and the unraveling of our intervention in Vietnam; the nation was beginning to fragment ideologically and geographically, and Vonnegut sought to cram all of this dysfunction (and a goofy, desperate kind of hope, the irrational comfort given through the genre of science fiction) into a sprawling narrative whose sense, if any, is situational, not conceptual,” explains the book’s description. You can listen to a sample version on Audible.com.