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Player Piano

✍ Scribed by Kurt Vonnegut

Book ID
100269716
Publisher
The Dial Press
Year
1952
Tongue
en-US
Weight
196 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0385333781

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✦ Synopsis

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 Vonnegutβ€”wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Review

β€œA funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”— _San Francisco Chronicle
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β€œAn exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma.”— Life

β€œHis black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear.”— The New York Times Book Review

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Vonnegut's 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.

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