Venus on the Half Shell by Kilgore Trout

Venus on the Half Shell

by Kilgore Trout

W. H. Allen & Co., A Star Book, 1975, ISBN 0352398469, paperback

Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, some rubbing and creasing to covers,soiling to fore-edges and inside front cover, pages age toned, no inscriptions (see photographs)

"Snaggle-toothed, white-haired, long & tangled, a product of the imagination ... a man whose exploits have been the focal point of one of our greatest contemporary writers, Kurt Vonnegut.
Now, for the first time without lurid covers, comes Kilgore Trout's epic science fiction saga of The Space Wanderer.  An earthman with an eye-patch, levis and shabby grey sweater ... a man drunk with immortality gained during a sexual interlude with an alien queen in heat ... a good guy whose only fault is that he asks questions no-one can answer, like ... Why are we created to suffer and die?"