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While Mortals Sleep : Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut (2011, Hardcover)
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Featuring more than a dozen pieces of artwork done by Vonnegut himself, this collection contains 16 never-before-published pieces of short fiction--long-buried, brilliant shor...Read more
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Early Stories written for American Audiences of the 1950s.Moving. Touching.
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Vonnegut can manipulate the Reader's emotions as well as ever, moving one close to the edge of tears at certain junctures. This is a "must read" for ...Read more
While Mortals Sleep : Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut (2011, Hardcover)
Author: Kurt VonnegutISBN-10: 0385343736ISBN-13: 9780385343732
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| Featuring more than a dozen pieces of artwork done by Vonnegut himself, this collection contains 16 never-before-published pieces of short fiction--long-buried, brilliant short stories dating from early in the author's career. Foreword by Dave Eggers Smart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writers-including Dave Eggers, author of this volume's Foreword. In these previously unpublished gems, Vonnegut's originality infuses a unique landscape of factories, trailers, and bars-and characters who pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and sometimes comically indifferent world. Here are stories of men and machines, art and artifice, and how ideals of fortune, fame, and love take curious twists in ordinary lives. An ambitious builder of roads, commanding an army of bulldozers, graders, and asphalt spreaders, fritters away his free time with miniature trains-until the women in his life crash his fantasy land. Trapped in a stenography pool, a young dreamer receives a call from a robber on the run, who presents her with a strange proposition. A crusty newspaperman is forced onto a committee to judge Christmas displays-a job that leads him to a suspiciously ostentatious ex-con and then a miracle. A hog farmer's widow receives cryptic, unsolicited letters from a man in Schenectady about "the indefinable sweet aches of the spirit." But what will she find when she goes to meet him in the flesh? These beautifully rendered works are a testament to Vonnegut's unique blend of observation and imagination. Like a present left behind by a departed loved one, While Mortals Sleepbestows upon us a shimmering Kurt Vonnegut gift: a poignant reflection of our world as it is and as it could be. | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 0385343736 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780385343732 |
| Key Details | |
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Number Of Pages | 272 pages |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Publication Date | 2011-01-25 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Random House Publishing Group |
| Additional Details | |
| Copyright Date | 2011 |
| Illustrated | Yes |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 14.7 Oz |
| Height | 1 In. |
| Width | 5.8 In. |
| Length | 8.6 In. |
| Target Audience | |
| Group | Trade |
| Classification Method | |
| LCCN | 2010-033817 |
| LC Classification Number | PS3572.O5W55 2011 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 |
| Dewey Edition | 22 |
| Reviews | |
| 'Immensely readable and thoroughly entertaining.' -The Washington Post 'Taut, concise . . . The stories set themselves up with neat swiftness, proceed at a clip, and shut down with equal speed, [showing Vonnegut] honing his skills in structure and satire.' -Los Angeles Times 'A lovely reminder of the mischievous moral voice we lost when we lost Kurt Vonnegut.' -San Francisco Chronicle 'These stories were all good when they were written decades ago, but many strike me as great now. Never has the voice of Kurt Vonnegut, humanist and humorist, been more relevant.'- The Seattle Times 'There's something distinctly timeless about Vonnegut's vision.' -Minneapolis Star-Tribune From the Trade Paperback edition. | |
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Early Stories written for American Audiences of the 1950s.Moving. Touching.
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Vonnegut can manipulate the Reader's emotions as well as ever, moving one close to the edge of tears at certain junctures. This is a "must read" for any student or fan of Vonnegut...I loved this book. Perhaps you will as well! A great insight into an amazing intellect...Book was written for a more conservative audience: it will appeal to many...and his Biblical stories and attacks on Commercialism of Christmas are pure delight! No sci-fi adventures or cynicism here...Just finely crafted early works done for late 50's Sta. Evening Post magazine readers...and they loved these stories, finally gathered together in book form.Brilliant writing craftsmanship!
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