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Vonnegut, Kurt

3.9

56,928 ratings by Goodreads

ISBN 10: 1501277251 ISBN 13: 9781501277252

Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, 2015

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 super computer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.

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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

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