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While Mortals Sleep: Leatherbound Numbered Collectors Edition (796 of 800)

Kurt Vonnegut

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While Mortals Sleep: Leatherbound Numbered Collectors Edition (796 of 800)

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Autographed Leatherbound Hardcover Collectors Edition (Number 796 of 800)
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- Leatherbound Hardcover Collectors Edition (Number 796 of 800) of "While Mortals Sleep"
- Kurt Vonnegut's Personal Autograph Inside Book
- Certificate of Authenticity
Was: $775.00
Now: $625.00

This Autographed Leatherbound Hardcover Collectors Edition (Number 796 of 800) of Kurt Vonnegut's While Mortals Sleep is autographed by Kurt Vonnegut.

Foreword by Dave EggersSmart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writers—including Dave Eggers, author of this volume’s Foreword. In these previously unpublished gems, Vonnegut’s originality infuses a unique landscape of factories, trailers, and bars—and characters who pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and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 trains—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 displays—a job that leads him to a suspiciously ostentatious ex-con and then a miracle. A hog farmer’s widow receives cryptic, unsolicited letters from a man in Schenectady about “the indefinable sweet aches of the spirit.” But what will she find when she goes to meet him in the flesh?These beautifully rendered works are a testament to Vonnegut’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.

Get your Kurt Vonnegut autographed book today!

Product Details

  • Pages: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Delacorte Press; American First edition
  • Release Date: January 25, 2011
  • ISBN-13: 9781617930881
  • Edition: Autographed Leatherbound Hardcover Numbered Collectors Edition Number 796 of 800

About The Author

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Was a writer, lecturer and painter. He was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. First published in 1950, he went on to write fourteen novels, four plays, and three short story collections, in addition to countless works of short fiction and nonfiction. He was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years. He died in 2007.

Product Details

This Autographed Leatherbound Hardcover Collectors Edition (Number 796 of 800) of Kurt Vonnegut's While Mortals Sleep is autographed by Kurt Vonnegut.

Foreword by Dave EggersSmart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writers—including Dave Eggers, author of this volume’s Foreword. In these previously unpublished gems, Vonnegut’s originality infuses a unique landscape of factories, trailers, and bars—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 trains—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 displays—a job that leads him to a suspiciously ostentatious ex-con and then a miracle. A hog farmer’s widow receives cryptic, unsolicited letters from a man in Schenectady about “the indefinable sweet aches of the spirit.” But what will she find when she goes to meet him in the flesh?These beautifully rendered works are a testament to Vonnegut’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.

Get your Kurt Vonnegut autographed book today!

Product Details

  • Pages: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Delacorte Press; American First edition
  • Release Date: January 25, 2011
  • ISBN-13: 9781617930881
  • Edition: Autographed Leatherbound Hardcover Numbered Collectors Edition Number 796 of 800

About The Author

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Was a writer, lecturer and painter. He was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. First published in 1950, he went on to write fourteen novels, four plays, and three short story collections, in addition to countless works of short fiction and nonfiction. He was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years. He died in 2007.

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About the Author

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Was a writer, lecturer and painter. He was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. First published in 1950, he went on to write fourteen novels, four plays, and three short story collections, in addition to countless works of short fiction and nonfiction. He was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years. He died in 2007.