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Welcome To The Monkey House and Palm Sunday
  • 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

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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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About the author

Kurt Vonnegut

Born in 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, KURT VONNEGUT was one of the few grandmasters of modern American letters. Called by the New York Times “the counterculture’s novelist,” his works guided a generation through the miasma of war and greed that was life in the U.S. in second half of the 20th century. After a stints as a soldier, anthropology PhD candidate, technical writer for General Electric, and salesman at a Saab dealership, Vonnegut rose to prominence with the publication ofCat’s Cradle in 1963. Several modern classics, including Slaughterhouse-Five, soon followed. Never quite embraced by the stodgier arbiters of literary taste, Vonnegut was nonetheless beloved by millions of readers throughout the world. “Given who and what I am,” he once said, “it has been presumptuous of me to write so well.” Kurt Vonnegut died in New York in 2007.
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Also by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse 5
Cat's Cradle: Popular Penguins
Breakfast of Champions
Mother Night
Welcome to the Monkey House
Slaughterhouse-Five Deluxe Edition
Monkey Business
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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