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    The Big Trip Up Yonder
    The Big Trip Up Yonder
    The Big Trip Up Yonder
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    The Big Trip Up Yonder

    By Kurt Vonnegut

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    The story is set in 2158 A.D., after the invention of a medicine called Anti-Gerasone, which is inexpensive and widely available. Anti-Gerasone halts the aging process and prevents people from dying of old age as long as they keep taking it; as a result, America now suffers from severe overpopulation and shortages of food and resources. Will people need to leave earth for better living conditions elsewhere and take "the big trip up yonder" or is that just a euphemism for something else? 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReading Essentials
    Release dateFeb 18, 2019
    ISBN9781773235189
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    Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as ""a true artist"" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, ""one of the best living American writers.""

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      The Big Trip Up Yonder - Kurt Vonnegut

      The Big Trip Up Yonder

      by Kurt Vonnegut

      First published in 1954

      This edition published by Reading Essentials

      Victoria, BC Canada with branch offices in the Czech Republic and Germany

      For.ullstein@gmail.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except in the case of excerpts by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

      The Big Trip Up Yonder

      by

      Kurt Vonnegut

      Epigraph

      If it was good enough for your grandfather, forget it … it is much too good for anyone else!

      The Big Trip Up Yonder

      Gramps Ford, his chin resting on his hands, his hands on the crook of his cane, was staring irascibly at the five–foot television screen that dominated the room. On the screen, a news commentator was summarizing the day's happenings. Every thirty seconds or so, Gramps would jab the floor with his cane–tip and shout, "Hell, we

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