Breakfast of Champions is a slippery lucid bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick inhumane ) America circa 1973 with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil like companion. The book follows its main character auto dealing solid citizen Dwayne Hoover down into madness a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks then crumbles Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It s not much of a plot but it s enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America sex war love and all of his other pet topics you know the only ones that really count. This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.