Bluebeard -- Kurt Vonnegut, Paperback Calendars & Diaries is the just-right series for

is the just-right series for any emerging reader

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Bluebeard -- Kurt Vonnegut, Paperback Calendars & Diaries is the just-right series for"Ranks with Vonnegut's best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction." The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy one, wants to be left alone 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 story and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain,