Hall of Mirrors (Short Story)

✍ Scribed by Kurt Vonnegut

• Book ID: 115272471
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 218 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780440339458

✦ Synopsis

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and often funny portrait of life in post-World War II America--a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence.
In this disquieting tale, the investigation into a string of mysterious disappearances turns surreal for two detectives, when they pay a visit to the home of a celebrated hypnotist. But who will turn the tables on whom when the final spell is cast?
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Hall of Mirrors_ and the thirteen other never-before-published pieces that comprise Look at the Birdie serve as an unexpected gift for devoted readers who...