Look at the Birdie, Kurt Vonnegut
Look at the Birdie, Kurt Vonnegut
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Look at the Birdie
Unpublished Short Fiction

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrator: Christopher Evan Welch, Norman Dietz, Barbara Rosenblat, Henry Strozier, John McDonough

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/20/2009


Synopsis

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen short stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction. This series of perfectly rendered vignettes, never before published in Kurt Vonnegut's lifetime, reveals a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post-World War II America-a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. Featuring a Foreword by author and longtime Vonnegut confidant Sidney Offit, Look at the Birdie is an unexpected gift for readers who thought that Vonnegut's voice had been stilled forever-and serves as a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius.

About Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut is the legendary author of dozens of books, including Timequake, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse-Five, and, with Lee Stringer, Like Shaking Hands with God, which is available from Washington Square Press.


Reviews

Goodreads review by JSou on December 08, 2010

Kurt Vonnegut has always been one of my favorite authors; he was one of the very first writers that was able to change the way I think. I had always loved books, but after my first encounter with KV in high school, I amazingly realized what a novel could actually do. But it's more than than that. Vo......more

Goodreads review by Abhinav on June 12, 2013

THIS IS AMAZING. Put that on repeat 13 more times - for all the 14 short stories in this compilation. Like I said in my only status update while reading this, it seems unbelievable that these stories, written in the early part of Vonnegut's career, never saw the light of day until two years after his......more

Goodreads review by sunrise, sunset on July 29, 2023

Kurt Vonnegut benim için bir noktada her şeydir. "Neden yaşıyorum" sorusunu onun sayesinde sordum kendime ve sormaya da devam ediyorum. Neyse. Kuşa Bak'a benden elbette beş yıldız. Kurt Vonnegut'un yazdığı her metin, yaptığı her iş "çok şey"dir çünkü. Ama bu baskı, bu çeviri hakkında söylemeden edem......more

Goodreads review by Josh on March 20, 2018

Reading an author’s posthumous, previously unpublished work never sits completely right for me. In almost any forward of a deceased author’s “uncovered work” you can find someone vouching for the guy (or gal) as being a real stickler for editing, a tireless craftsman, someone who always wanted to ge......more