Player Piano

A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future. San Francisco ChronicleKurt Vonneguts first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Pauls rebellion is vintage Vonnegutwildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Praise for Player PianoAn exuberant, crackling style . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma. Life His black logic . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear. The New York Times Book Review