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Player Piano

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Copyright © 1952 by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
1952
Science Fiction
2004
1 time
35 Chapters
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560
No series
For Jane - God Bless Her
Ilium, New York, is divided into three parts.
May contain spoilers
"Forward march."
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Added: 08-Jun-2004
Last Updated: 19-Jul-2015

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 01-Apr-1981
Dell Publishing Company
Paperback
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Apr-1981
Format:
Paperback
Cover Price:
$2.75
Pages*:
320
Read:
Once
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
383
ISBN:
0-440-17037-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-440-17037-2
Printing:
12
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Player Piano

Want the computer to solve all your problems?  Want machines to give you everything you need?  Want to be taken care of from cradle to grave by an industrial society that knows what is best for you?  Want to find out what hell is really like?

Then you are invited to visit Kurt Vonnegut's funny and savage vision of a future that is somewhere between Animal Farm and Alive in Wonderland.  You'll until you cry.

Kurt Vonnegut, jr.

For many years Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., has been a hero of underground literature in America.  Only recently, however, has the general public become aware on his unique genius.  His is a far-out imagination which always winds up right on target, an irresistible humor with a superb cutting edge, a storytelling talent that makes reading a pleasure as well as a mind-jolting experience.  He is, as Graham Green has declared, "one of the best living American writers."
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Notes and Comments:
I bought this book in college,  A friend of mine had told me about Kurt Vonnegut and for a while I bought a lot of his books.  I had read Slapstick in high school but didn't know the author at the time.  Player Piano is one I bought at a used book store on Highway 80 and never got around to reading until June 2004, just after I finished Peter Pan.
 12-Jan-1999
Delta
Order from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
12-Jan-1999
Pages*:
352
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
394
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-385-33378-1
ISBN-13:
978-0-385-33378-8
Country:
United States
Language:
English
"AN EXUBERANT, CRACKLING STYLE...  VONNEGUT IS A BLACK HUMORIST, FANTASIST AND SATIRIST, A MAN DISPOSED TO DEEP AND COMIC REFLECTION ON THE HUMAN DILEMMA." - Life

KURT VONNECGUT
is a master of contemporary American literature.  His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established his as "a true artist"* with Cat's Cradle in 1963.  He is, as Graham Greene has declared, "one of the best living American writers."

PLAYER PIANO
Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines.  Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut - wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.

"HIS BLACK LOGIC... GIVES US SOMETHING TO LAUGH ABOUT AND MUCH TO FEAR."
- The New York Times Book Review
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01-Apr-1981
Dell Publishing Company
Paperback

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12-Jan-1999
Delta


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