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A Man Without a Country

20th Anniversary Edition

Author Kurt Vonnegut
Introduction by Lewis Black
Edited by Daniel Simon
Hardcover
$29.95 US
Seven Stories Press
On sale Nov 04, 2025 | 160 Pages | 9781644214886
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The last of the canonical Kurt Vonnegut books, A Man Without a Country spent eight weeks on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list, selling over a quarter-million copies

This 20th anniversary edition features a new introduction by Lewis Black.

“For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person.”–USA Today

“The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”–Kurt Vonnegut, from A Man Without a Country


The closest Kurt Vonnegut ever came to writing his autobiography, A Man Without a Country is part memoir, part social and political commentary, and part riveting personal conversation with an old friend. An undeniably moving and unique return of the literary grandmaster to form.

A Man Without a Country features Vonnegut’s coming of age, his war experiences, his life as an artist, and the hilariously funny and razor-sharp way of understanding things that helped him get through it all.

Some Vonnegut jewels in A Man without a Country:
  • "If I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"
  • "To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."
  • "I asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton what he thought of our great victory over Iraq and he said, ‘Mohammed Ali versus Mr. Rogers.’"
  • And finally, on the subject of the condition of the soul of America today: "What has happened to us?"
Plentifully illustrated with the author’s signature woodcut aphorisms, which appear in the book in blue, A Man Without a Country is possibly Vonnegut’s most intimate book, and certainly one of his best.
  • AWARD
    New York Times Bestseller
© Seven Stories Press
Born in 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, KURT VONNEGUT was one of the few grandmasters of modern American letters. Called by the New York Times “the counterculture’s novelist,” his works guided a generation through the miasma of war and greed that was life in the U.S. in second half of the 20th century. After a stints as a soldier, anthropology PhD candidate, technical writer for General Electric, and salesman at a Saab dealership, Vonnegut rose to prominence with the publication ofCat’s Cradle in 1963. Several modern classics, including Slaughterhouse-Five, soon followed. Never quite embraced by the stodgier arbiters of literary taste, Vonnegut was nonetheless beloved by millions of readers throughout the world. “Given who and what I am,” he once said, “it has been presumptuous of me to write so well.” Kurt Vonnegut died in New York in 2007. View titles by Kurt Vonnegut

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The last of the canonical Kurt Vonnegut books, A Man Without a Country spent eight weeks on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list, selling over a quarter-million copies

This 20th anniversary edition features a new introduction by Lewis Black.

“For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person.”–USA Today

“The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”–Kurt Vonnegut, from A Man Without a Country


The closest Kurt Vonnegut ever came to writing his autobiography, A Man Without a Country is part memoir, part social and political commentary, and part riveting personal conversation with an old friend. An undeniably moving and unique return of the literary grandmaster to form.

A Man Without a Country features Vonnegut’s coming of age, his war experiences, his life as an artist, and the hilariously funny and razor-sharp way of understanding things that helped him get through it all.

Some Vonnegut jewels in A Man without a Country:
  • "If I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"
  • "To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."
  • "I asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton what he thought of our great victory over Iraq and he said, ‘Mohammed Ali versus Mr. Rogers.’"
  • And finally, on the subject of the condition of the soul of America today: "What has happened to us?"
Plentifully illustrated with the author’s signature woodcut aphorisms, which appear in the book in blue, A Man Without a Country is possibly Vonnegut’s most intimate book, and certainly one of his best.

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  • AWARD
    New York Times Bestseller

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© Seven Stories Press
Born in 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, KURT VONNEGUT was one of the few grandmasters of modern American letters. Called by the New York Times “the counterculture’s novelist,” his works guided a generation through the miasma of war and greed that was life in the U.S. in second half of the 20th century. After a stints as a soldier, anthropology PhD candidate, technical writer for General Electric, and salesman at a Saab dealership, Vonnegut rose to prominence with the publication ofCat’s Cradle in 1963. Several modern classics, including Slaughterhouse-Five, soon followed. Never quite embraced by the stodgier arbiters of literary taste, Vonnegut was nonetheless beloved by millions of readers throughout the world. “Given who and what I am,” he once said, “it has been presumptuous of me to write so well.” Kurt Vonnegut died in New York in 2007. View titles by Kurt Vonnegut

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