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Player Piano - by Kurt Vonnegut (Paperback)

Player Piano - by  Kurt Vonnegut (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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 super computer and run completely by machines. His rebellion is a wildly funny, darkly satirical look at modern society.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>"A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future."--<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b> <p/>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. <p/><b>Praise for <i>Player Piano</i></b> <p/>"An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma."<b>--<i>Life</i></b> <p/> "His black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear."<b>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future."<b>--</b><i><b>San Francisco Chronicle</b><br></i><br>"An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma."<b>--<i>Life</i></b> <p/>"His black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear."<b>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Kurt Vonnegut</b>'s black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in <i>The Sirens of Titan</i> in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" (<i>The New York Times</i>) with <i>Cat's Cradle</i> in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, "one of the best living American writers." Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.</p>

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