While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

Foreword by Dave Eggers

Smart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writersâ€”including Dave Eggers, author of this volumeâ€™s Foreword. In these previously unpublished gems, Vonnegutâ€™s originality infuses a unique landscape of factories, trailers, and barsâ€”and characters who pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and sometimes comically indifferent world.

Here are stories of men and machines, art and artifice, and how ideals of fortune, fame, and love take curious twists in ordinary lives. An ambitious builder of roads, commanding an army of bulldozers, graders, and asphalt spreaders, fritters away his free time with miniature trainsâ€”until the women in his life crash his fantasy land. Trapped in a stenography pool, a young dreamer receives a call from a robber on the run, who presents her with a strange proposition. A crusty newspaperman is forced onto a committee to judge Christmas displaysâ€”a job that leads him to a suspiciously ostentatious ex-con and then a miracle. A hog farmerâ€™s widow receives cryptic, unsolicited letters from a man in Schenectady about â€œthe indefinable sweet aches of the spirit.â€ But what will she find when she goes to meet him in the flesh?

These beautifully rendered works are a testament to Vonnegutâ€™s unique blend of observation and imagination. Like a present left behind by a departed loved one, While Mortals Sleep bestows upon us a shimmering Kurt Vonnegut gift: a poignant reflection of our world as it is and as it could be.
Country USA
Manufacturer Delacorte Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-01-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385343732

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Delacorte Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2011-01-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780385343732

While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

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