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  • Published: 4 October 1994
  • ISBN: 9780099387817
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $29.99

Welcome To The Monkey House and Palm Sunday

An Autobiographical Collage



A selection of the best sci-fi shorts from an American genius of the genre, collected alongside his most personal essays.

A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms 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 bittersweet 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.

  • Published: 4 October 1994
  • ISBN: 9780099387817
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $29.99

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Praise for Welcome To The Monkey House and Palm Sunday

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

Rebecca Romijin-Stamos, Independent

A brilliant wacky ideas-monger

Observer

A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny

Financial Times
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