Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories

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[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending.TheCharlotte Observer

Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonneguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonneguts audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.

Includes the following stories:

Where I Live
Harrison Bergeron
Who Am I This Time
Welcome to the Monkey House
Long Walk to Forever
The Foster Portfolio
Miss Temptation
All the Kings Horses
Tom Edisons 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 Works
The Lie
Unready to Wear
The Kid Nobody Could Handle
The Manned Missiles
Epicac
Adam
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

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[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending.TheCharlotte Observer

Author Bio

Kurt Vonneguts humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured Americas attention inThe Sirens of Titanin 1959 and established him as a true artist (The New York Times) withCats Cradlein 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, one of the best living American writers. Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.