Player Piano: A Novel

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Random House Publishing Group, Sep 30, 2009 - Fiction - 352 pages

“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Kurt 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 supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.

Praise for Player Piano

“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

“His black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear.”—The New York Times Book Review

 

Selected pages

Contents

Section 1
19
Section 2
23
Section 3
61
Section 4
64
Section 5
81
Section 6
106
Section 7
137
Section 8
150
Section 13
210
Section 14
239
Section 15
246
Section 16
259
Section 17
271
Section 18
285
Section 19
292
Section 20
305

Section 9
157
Section 10
160
Section 11
186
Section 12
202
Section 21
311
Section 22
318
Copyright

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About the author (2009)

Kurt Vonnegut’s humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist” (The New York Times) with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.

Bibliographic information

TitlePlayer Piano: A Novel
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
Editionunabridged
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group, 2009
ISBN0307568083, 9780307568083
Length352 pages
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