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Query: Vonnegut tackles America in this pleasing satire

"Hocus Pocus" finds Vonnegut continuing his war with American politics and behaviors. Indeed, his central character is being held hostage in a library by 10,000 very hostile, mostly minority prisoners. One of their chief reasons for disgust? The Japanese have bought the prison, and taken over the guarding, etc. If you can't tell yet, Vonnegut has a lot to say, and not near enough plot to get it all out. He points out that the character's sexual exploits were the same number as the people he had killed in Vietnam. Is this a poignant addressing of American values, or pathos overkill? In "Hocus Pocus", you find a lot of both. But when Vonnegut can keep his focus and not be sidetracked into emotion, he can still make magic