"Breakfast of Champions” is a turning-point book in the author’s work, in which he abandons a fantastical plot and, as he himself admitted, throws overboard the heroes of his older books. In “Breakfast of Champions,” Vonnegut draws an extremely realistic picture of modern America—simple, clear, terrifying, and fantastic in its wild absurdity. In 1999, the novel was adapted into a film; Bruce Willis played Dwayne Hoover.