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Vonnegut: Novels and Stories 1950-1962
Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950-1962 (LOA #226): Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / stories (Library of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition)
Vonnegut: Novels and Stories 1950-1962
Sidney Offit, Kurt Vonnegut
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 “Welcome to the Monkey House.”LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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  • Science Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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This book is a collection of some of Kurt Vonnegut's novels and short stories.These novels are Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, and Mother Night. Also in this book there are many different short stories. Player Piano is about the chief engineer at Ilium Ill named Dr.Paul Proteus. Who must choose sides in the close coming civil war. The Sirens of Titan takes place on the Moons of Saturn, Earth, Mercury, and Mars. This is about the characters Winston Rumford, his wife Beatrice, and Malachi Constant. This novel is Sci-Fi.Mother Night is about the German-American Howard Jr.

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