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Shout about it from the housetops : from the collection Look at the birdie, unpublished short fiction by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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EDITORIAL REVIEW: \*\*Look at the Birdie\*\* is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction.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 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. Here are tales both cautionary and hopeful, each brimming with Vonnegut's trademark humor and profound humanism. A family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. A man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. A quack psychiatrist turned "murder counselor" concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. While these stories reflect the anxieties of the postwar era that Vonnegut was so adept at capturing– and provide insight into the development of his early style–collectively, they

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Author
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780385343718
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction
Rating
3.95 / 5 (4,927 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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