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Welcome To The Monkey House and Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Kurt Vonnegut

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Published by Vintage Classics, part of Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback

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Available to pre-order for 01 Nov 2013

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EAN: 9780099387817
Published: 1 Nov 2013

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A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasm from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House – setting the tone for a collection shot through with Vonnegut's acrid wit, and his bewilderment at the corruption of humanity.

From riffs on country music, George Bush, and his mother’s midnight mania, to a bitter-sweet tribute to a dead friend, Palm Sunday demonstrates why Kurt Vonnegut is equally well known as an essayist and commentator as he is a novelist.

This caustic, funny and poignant collection resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice.

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What the critics say

Vonnegut's sharp wit and intellect are tempered but not blunted by his honesty and humanity
- Independent

These taut, concise stories show us the roots of a great Rube Goldberg literary career
- Los Angeles Times

Wonderfully wicked
- Washington Post

Twisted, funny, sci-fi and high-concept. It’s a great, great book
- Independent

A brilliant wacky ideas-monger
- Observer

A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny
- Financial Times

About the Author

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of war in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired the canonic war novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He is the author of thirteen other novels, which include Cat’s Cradle, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galápagos and Bluebeard, two collections of stories, and three non-fiction books. He died in 2007.

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