We Are What We Pretend to Be

A posthumous double volume of the influential author's first and last written works, published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of his birth, includes the bitter satire "Basic training" and the unfinished final novel "If God were alive today." In the foreword, Nannette Vonnegut, shares her reminiscences about her father and the autobiographical events in his life related to these two works.