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Join Librarian Tatum Preston and her friend Victoria Ebrahimi, a 2nd year student at Cumberland School of Law, as they discuss Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut.

Rabo Karabekian, an aging war veteran, failed artist, and collector of abstract art, looks back on his life at the urging of a mysterious visitor-turned-house guest, Circe Berman. As he puts his story on paper, he reminisces on many interesting and funny characters and explores the themes of aging, mistakes and redemption, and how we are remembered.

Vonnegut fans and art lovers alike will enjoy this novel. Available for purchase in the Museum Store.

From Library Journal:

Vonnegut rounds up several familiar themes and character types for his 13th novel: genocide, the surreality of the modern world, fluid interplay of the past and present, and the less-than-heroic figure taking center stage to tell his story. Here he elevates to narrator a minor character from Breakfast of Champions, wounded World War II veteran and abstract painter Rabo Karabekian. At the urging of enchantress-as-bully Circe Berman, Karabekian writes his "hoax autobiography." Vonnegut uses the tale to satirize art movements and the art-as-investment mind-set and to explore the shifting shape of reality. Recommended. A.J. Wright, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.