Monkey Business by Kurt Vonnegut - ISBN: 9781529983913
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Vonnegut’s dark humor exposes the cost of engineered perfection.
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Monkey Business

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    112 pages

  • Release Date

    20 October 2026

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Summary

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical genius, in his thought-provoking dystopian tales that challenge the status quo.

Monkey Business distils four of Kurt Vonnegut’s best dystopian stories, offering a darkly comic vision of the modern world and the cost of trying to engineer a better life.

In a future where everyone is forced to be equal, a gifted teenager dares to rebel. A suburban family discovers a device that delivers perfect happiness. A world fri…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529983913
ISBN-10:1529983916
Author:Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Release Date:20 October 2026
Weight:98g
Dimensions:196mm x 129mm x 9mm
Series:Brief Encounters
About The Author

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel Player Piano (1952) achieved underground success. Cat’s Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as ‘one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors’. His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972.

Vonnegut is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.

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