Mother Night is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut Jr., first published in 1961. A film version starring Nick Nolte was released in 1996. It is the story of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American, who moved with his family to Germany directly after World War I and then later became alternately a well-known German language playwright and a Nazi propagandist. The action of the novel is narrated (through the use of metafiction) by Campbell himself. The premise is that he is writing his memoirs while awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison. Howard W. Campbell also appears briefly in Vonnegut's later novel Slaughterhouse-Five. Campbell's character was probably inspired by the story of WWII radio propagandist William Joyce, a.k.a. Lord Haw-Haw, although only in the most general terms.

The title of the book is taken from Goethe's Faust, while the name of the main character is taken from the former editor of Astounding Science Fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr..

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i'm changing my number so my mother can't call me every night and ask if i've been whoring around. my god.
lizzyfoshizzy (lizzeh fo shizzeh) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:10:17 -0000
i'm changing my number so my mother can't call me every night and ask if i've been whoring around. my god.
That's not what your mother said last night! #insults
marcofratelli (Marco Fratelli) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:06:56 -0000
That's not what your mother said last night! #insults
I talked to my mother something last night, it is not about her or me, recently I hardly say anything which I considered important.
BenjaminXYang (Benjamin X Yang) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:04:36 -0000
I talked to my mother something last night, it is not about her or me, recently I hardly say anything which I considered important.
@FlyGuyNate09 yea ma mother is a freaking NIGHT HAWK
mrslieafbaby (liea baby ) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:53:58 -0000
@FlyGuyNate09 yea ma mother is a freaking NIGHT HAWK
@stephanie04 I'm going with my mother-in-law on Sunday, the tix have been sold out up until tomorrow night I believe
jennybear84 (Jennifer ) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:48:45 -0000
@stephanie04 I'm going with my mother-in-law on Sunday, the tix have been sold out up until tomorrow night I believe
Fuck. My mother just called an I have to go back to the hospital. Fuck. I had a nice night planned too.
SkaPunkPezzy (Casey H Robinson) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:44:35 -0000
Fuck. My mother just called an I have to go back to the hospital. Fuck. I had a nice night planned too.

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