Kurt Vonnegut , whose novel
Slaughterhouse-Five has become a classic of 20th-century fiction, remains one of the most influential and provocative writers in America today. Patrick Wright profiles this acerbic satirist in the light of his new book, Timequake, which imagines a world facing a global "timequake" in 2001 and being forced to relive the decade since
1991 with all its mistakes.
Producer Matthew Dodd