Thread: Vonnegut's Letter to the Man Who Burned V's Book
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Old 06-28-2012, 10:00 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze View Post
November 9, 1973: After high school English teacher, Bruce Severy, decided to have his students read Slaughterhouse Five, McCarthy caught wind and ordered that all thirty-two copies from the class be burned in the school furnace to remove the stench of Vonnegut's "obscene language." Other books followed: Sixty copies of Deliverance, by James Dickey, and the anthology, Short Story Masterpieces, which included fiction by Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck.
Hemingway and Steinbeck were also burned? No great loss there
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