Welcome to the Monkey House

Name: Welcome to the Monkey House
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN: 9780061135194

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrator: David Strathairn, Maria Tucci

Unabridged: 11 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/23/2006

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as ""a true artist""* with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, ""one of the best living American writers.""Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.*The New York Times

About Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as ""a true artist"" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, ""one of the best living American writers.""

About David Strathairn

David Strathairn reads ""Welcome to the Monkey House,"" ""Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog,"" ""D.P.,"" ""The Lie,"" and ""Adam"".

About Maria Tucci

Maria Tucci began her career in the original production of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. She won a Tony® nomination for her work in The Rose Tattoo, has starred on Broadway and off-Broadway, and in such films as Sweet Nothing and To Die For.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on October 21, 2022

Every epoch tells its stories its own way and Kurt Vonnegut managed to catch the spirit of the last midcentury perfectly… The Year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody w......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on March 02, 2018

This is a master class in the art of short story writing. Every short story is finely crafted. Many have humor, many have heartbreak, many have subtle romance. Almost all have commentary on society, especially American society, that is as relevant today as it was in the 1950s. What are these stories......more