BLUEBEARD

Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left a lone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life storyand Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about mans careless fancy to create or d estroy what he loves.