Welcome To The Monkey House and Palm Sunday
An Autobiographical Collage
$37.27
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
4 October 1994
Summary
A selection of the best sci-fi shorts from an American genius of the genre, collected alongside his most personal essays.
A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House - setting the tone for a collection shot through with Vonnegut’s acrid wit, and his bewilderment at the corruption of humanity.
From riffs on country music, George Bush, and his mother’s midnight mania, to a bittersweet tribute …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099387817 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099387816 |
| Author: | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 4 October 1994 |
| Weight: | 474g |
| Dimensions: | 43mm x 131mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
A brilliant wacky ideas-monger
Vonnegut’s sharp wit and intellect are tempered but not blunted by his honesty and humanity * Independent *
These taut, concise stories show us the roots of a great Rube Goldberg literary career * Los Angeles Times *
Wonderfully wicked * Washington Post *
Twisted, funny, sci-fi and high-concept. It’s a great, great book – Rebecca Romijin-Stamos * Independent *
A brilliant wacky ideas-monger * Observer *
A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny * Financial Times *
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of war in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired the canonic war novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He is the author of thirteen other novels, which include Cat’s Cradle, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos and Bluebeard, two collections of stories, and three non-fiction books. He died in 2007.
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