Sidney Offit: Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950-1962: Player Piano/The Sirens of Titan/Mother Night/Stories
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- Kustantaja: Library of America
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9781598531503
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Before winning international fame with 'Cat s Cradle 'and 'Slaughterhouse-Five, ' Kurt Vonnegut was a master of the drugstore paperback and the popular short story. This authoritative collection of his brilliant early work opens with 'Player Piano' (1952), a 'Metropolis'-like parable of breakneck technological innovation and its effect on those it robs of their livelihoods. 'The Sirens of Titan '(1959), the interplanetary adventures of the world s wealthiest and most despised man, is both a pulp-fiction space opera and a satire on the vanity of human striving. The confessions of a German-American double agent well placed among the Nazi elite, 'Mother Night '(1962) is a cautionary tale with a famous moral: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Here too are six of Vonnegut s best short stories, gems that display his matchless talent for hilarious invention and caustic social criticism. A companion volume, 'Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963 1973, ' collects 'Cat s Cradle'; 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater'; 'Slaughterhouse-Five'; 'Breakfast of Champions'; and three short stories, including Welcometo the Monkey House. '