**Look at the Birdie** is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction.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 of
Shout About It from the Housetops (Stories)
β Scribed by Kurt Vonnegut
- Book ID
- 115273156
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780440339427
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Look at the Birdie** is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction.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 "Shout About It from the Housetops ," an unassuming storm window salesman observes the effects of full disclosure firsthand when he drops in on the town's freshly minted celebrity couple-a notorious ladies' man and his novelist wife, author of a scandalous bestseller not-so-loosely based on her real marriage.
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