Player Piano: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0307568083
- ISBN-13
- 9780307568083
- Series
- Player Piano
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-09-30
- Publisher
- Dial Press
- Author
- Kurt Vonnegut
Description
“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
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