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  • Published: 6 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448113934
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

While Mortals Sleep




A collection of sixteen previously unpublished stories by the twentieth century master.

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.

  • Published: 6 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448113934
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272

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Praise for While Mortals Sleep

A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny

Financial Times

Immensely readable and thoroughly entertaining.

The Washington Post

Unimitative and inimitable social satirist

Harper's

Vonnegut is masterful at quickly sketching a character who you instantly recognise and immeadiately are willing to follow... no matter the plot, you as the reader know that by the end of the story, you will get somewhere. That Vonnegut will tell you something with candour and clarity

Dave Eggers

While these early stories show an author still testing the boundaries of his craft and obsessions, Vonnegut's acute moral sense and knack for compelling prose are very much on display. In the foreword, Dave Eggers calls Vonnegut "a hippie Mark Twain," which perfectly captures an essential truth about this esteemed author

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