While Mortals Sleep

ISBN-13: 9780099529064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str.

Kurt Vonnegut

Opis

In 'While Mortals Sleep' men and machines, art and artifice, fortune and fame become curiously twisted. A man plays with his model trains too much until the women in his life decide to take matters into their own hands. In the title story, a hard-nosed reporter is called upon to judge the annual Christmas lights competition.

Recenzje

Vonnegut is masterful at quickly sketching a character who you instantly recognise and immeadiately are willing to follow... no matter the plot, you as the reader know that by the end of the story, you will get somewhere. That Vonnegut will tell you something with candour and clarity Dave Eggers

O autorze

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel Player Piano (1952) achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'. His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.