Vintage Classics: While Mortals Sleep

Vintage Classics: While Mortals Sleep
Kurt Vonnegut
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 272pg
6 Oct 2011 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780099529064
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In "While Mortals Sleep" men and machines, art and artifice, fortune and fame become curiously twisted. A travelling salesman falls in love a robot, Jenny, a refrigerator with personality. A man plays with his model trains too much until the women in his life decide to take matters into their own hands. A young typist receives a plea for help on her Dictaphone - it is from an escaped, dying murderer hiding somewhere in the works of her company's factory. In the title story, a hard-nosed reporter is called upon to judge the annual Christmas lights competition - a job that leads him to learn something about the true meaning of Christmas.
"Vonnegut is masterful at quickly sketching a character who you instantly recognise and immeadiately are willing to follow... no matter the plot, you as the reader know that by the end of the story, you will get somewhere. That Vonnegut will tell you something with candour and clarity" -- Dave Eggers "A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny" Financial Times "A satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe" -- Jay McInerney "Unimitative and inimitable social satirist" Harper's "A laughing prophet of doom" New York Times
Kurt Vonnegut 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 was in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780099529064
Published: 6 Oct 2011
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 272
Dewey: 813.54

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