Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography

Published on: 2011-08-11
Page Count: 208 pages
Print Type: BOOK
Categories: Literary Criticism
Maturity Rating: NOT_MATURE
Language: en
Embeddable: Yes
PDF Available: Yes
EPUB Available: No
ISBN-13: 9781441130341
ISBN-10: 1441130349
... novel). Player Piano not only delves more deeply into the heart of the malaise of the fifties, but it also registers a distinctive political attitude that affects Vonnegut's later writings.13 Because of the emphasis on technology ...

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