Franklin Library: KURT VONNEGUT: WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE: SHORT FICTION

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Kurt Vonnegut's "Welcome to the Monkey House," a Limited edition, Illustrated by Will Harmuth, one of the COLLECTED STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS series, Frontispiece Portrait of Vonnegut, published in 1981. Bound in brown leather, the book has brown moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edge--in near FINE condition---except for 'very minor' fading on edges of moire silk----mentined for accuracy. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., who lived from 1922-2007, was an American novelist and short story writer with a career spanning over 50 years. Born in INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, he attended CORNELL University where he majored in chemistry--"because my father would not pay for my education unless I studied something serious." He dropped out and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943. 23-year-old Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was deployed to Europe to fight in WW II and was captured by the Germans at the BATTLE OF THE BULGE. "Welcome to the Monkey House" is collection of 25 short stories including: "Harrison Bergeron," "Who Am I This Time," "Long Walk to Forever," "The Foster Portfolio," "Miss Temptation," "All the King's Horses," "Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog," "New Dictionary," "Next Door," "More Stately Mansions," "The Hyannis Port Story," "D.P." "Report on the Barnhouse Effect," "The Euphio Question," "Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son," "Deer in the Woods," "The Lie," "Unready to Wear," "The Kid Nobody Could Handle," "The Manned Missiles," "EPICAC," "Adam," "Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow," and my favorite: "Welcome to the Monkey House," a beguiling portrait of Vonnegut's place of residence, a town called Barnstable Village on Cape Cod in which Vonnegut says, "A big change took place about sixty years ago when it was discovered that tuna were good to eat. Barnstable fisherman them 'horse mackeral' and cursed whenever they caught one. . ." He goes on to say that now Barnstable residents are transplanted midwesterners, southerners, and Californians. In the Barnstable Village next door to the Howard Johnson is an establishment called an Ethical Suicide Parlor and in the war against reproductive instinct is the birth control pill which causes numbness from the waist down. . ." 302 pages---a RARE title. I offer combined shipping.

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