Book description
While Mortals Sleep is a smart, clear-eyed collection of
stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction. Set
in trailers, bars and factories, Vonnegut conjures up a world where
men and machines, art and artifice, fame and fortune become curiously
twisted and characters pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and
comically indifferent world.
Written early in his career, and never published before, these
tightly plotted stories are infused with Vonnegut's distinctive blend
of observation, imagination and scabrous humour.
This collection features an introduction by Dave Eggers.
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied
biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he
served in Europe and, as a prisoner of was in Germany, witnessed the
destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired
his classic novel
Slaughterhouse-Five
. He is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of
stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.
