Player Piano - Softcover

Vonnegut, Kurt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0586026622 ISBN 13: 9780586026625

Publisher: Grafton, 1973

Synopsis

World War III and the second industrial revolution have come and gone. Now machines and computers perform all routine manufacturing tasks, while the top scientists and technocrats run society. But underneath the surface, the impulse to rebellion seethes.

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Review:

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

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"

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

-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

"A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future."--San Francisco Chronicle

"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

From the Back Cover:

World War Three is over, and llium, New York, is divided into three parts. In the north-west are the scientists, engineers and technocrats who struggle to run society, victims of an insane system of bureaucratised tyranny; in the north-east are the machines and computers which perform all routine manufacturing tasks; and in the south is the area known locally as Homestead, where almost all of the people live. Those with redundant or non-existent skills are forced into the Army or the Reconstruction and Reclamation Corps – known bitterly as the ‘Reeks and Wrecks’. Robbed of their work, they are deprived of everything that makes them dignified and human. But, underneath the surface, the impulse to rebellion seethes...

‘One of the best living American writers.’
GRAHAM GREENE

‘George Orwell, Dr Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer.’
TIME

‘One of the master alchemists of modern American fiction.’
SUNDAY TIMES

‘Kurt Vonnegut is the most unusual and attractive of contemporary satirists.’
FINANCIAL TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: Grafton
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0586026622
• ISBN 13: 9780586026625
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288