Player Piano: A Novel

The Dial Press

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UPC:
9780385333788
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1/12/1999
Release Date:
1/12/1999
Author:
Vonnegut, Kurt
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Pages:
352
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A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonneguts 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. Pauls rebellion is vintage Vonnegutwildly 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