Player Piano
by Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Near Fine
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition. Very Good +/Near Fine. A Very Good+ copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Book with some tape-ghosts to the boards and end papers. Dust jacket a bit faded at the spine and extremities and with a short, closed tear at the top of the front panel (no loss).
Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano, is a satire set in dystopian machine-dominated America, which cautions against blindly embracing technology. Inspired by his time at General Electric, Vonnegut imagines a future where automatization has replaced most industries, relegating society to meaningless toil. The story follows engineer Dr. Paul Proteus, one of the privileged few, as he becomes disillusioned. Vonnegut's prophetic sci-fi tale offers "an uncommon and honest theme for our days—that a society that outsources all labor to technology may inadvertently drain out too much humanity" (Bosphorus Review of Books). Very Good + in Near Fine dust jacket.
Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano, is a satire set in dystopian machine-dominated America, which cautions against blindly embracing technology. Inspired by his time at General Electric, Vonnegut imagines a future where automatization has replaced most industries, relegating society to meaningless toil. The story follows engineer Dr. Paul Proteus, one of the privileged few, as he becomes disillusioned. Vonnegut's prophetic sci-fi tale offers "an uncommon and honest theme for our days—that a society that outsources all labor to technology may inadvertently drain out too much humanity" (Bosphorus Review of Books). Very Good + in Near Fine dust jacket.
Synopsis
Player Piano, author Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, was published in 1952. It is a dystopia of automation and capitalism, describing the dereliction they cause in the quality of life. The story takes place in a near-future society that is almost totally mechanized, eliminating the need for human laborers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5789
- Title
- Player Piano
- Author
- Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- It was an appalling thought, to be so well-integrated into the machinery of society and history as to be able to move in only one plane, and along one line.
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