I don’t even know how I managed (or was it my wife that
managed?) to get my hands on this collection of short stories, but I’m glad I
did.
I was expecting science fiction, but what I got was a wide range
of styles, with stories often about American suburban life (the joy!), and in
which the American dream is, in one way or another, crushed time and again.
Vonnegut’s humour and irony are very much there, like in all
his other works, and some of the stories (like The Package) would have given me a bit of faith in the future of
mankind – too bad they were written 60 years ago and the world is still very
much an awful place…
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