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While mortals sleep : unpublished short fiction / Kurt Vonnegut ; [foreword by Dave Eggers].
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385343732 (hc.)
- Physical Description: xii, 253 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, c2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Feb 11 |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Jenny -- The epizootic -- Hundred-dollar kisses -- Guardian of the person -- With his hand on the throttle -- Girl pool -- Ruth -- While mortals sleep -- Out, brief candle -- Tango -- Bomar -- The man without no kiddleys -- Mr. Z -- A year, easy -- Money talks -- The humbugs. |
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| Subject: | Short stories. |
| Genre: | Short stories. Short stories. |
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- 10 of 12 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Smithers Public Library | F VON (Text) | 35101000326087 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
An anthology of 16 previously unpublished works includes selections from the iconic writerâs early literary career and is complemented by more than one dozen of his original works of art and a foreword by the National Book Critics Circle Award-finalist author ofWhat Is the What . - Baker & Taylor
An anthology of sixteen previously unpublished works includes selections from the iconic writer's early literary career and is complemented by more than a dozen of his original works of art. - Random House, Inc.
Foreword by Dave Eggers
Smart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writersâincluding Dave Eggers, author of this volumeâs Foreword. In these previously unpublished gems, Vonnegutâs originality infuses a unique landscape of factories, trailers, and barsâand characters who pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and sometimes comically indifferent world.
Here are stories of men and machines, art and artifice, and how ideals of fortune, fame, and love take curious twists in ordinary lives. An ambitious builder of roads, commanding an army of bulldozers, graders, and asphalt spreaders, fritters away his free time with miniature trainsâuntil the women in his life crash his fantasy land. Trapped in a stenography pool, a young dreamer receives a call from a robber on the run, who presents her with a strange proposition. A crusty newspaperman is forced onto a committee to judge Christmas displaysâa job that leads him to a suspiciously ostentatious ex-con and then a miracle. A hog farmerâs widow receives cryptic, unsolicited letters from a man in Schenectady about âthe indefinable sweet aches of the spirit.â But what will she find when she goes to meet him in the flesh?
These beautifully rendered works are a testament to Vonnegutâs unique blend of observation and imagination. Like a present left behind by a departed loved one, While Mortals Sleep bestows upon us a shimmering Kurt Vonnegut gift: a poignant reflection of our world as it is and as it could be.
