Player Piano - Brossura

Vonnegut, Kurt

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0586090029 ISBN 13: 9780586090022

Casa editrice: Flamingo, 1992

Riassunto

World War III and the second industrial revolution have come and gone. Now machines and computers perform all routine manufacturing tasks, while the top scientists and technocrats run society. But underneath the surface, the impulse to rebellion seethes.

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World War Three is over, and llium, New York, is divided into three parts. In the north-west are the scientists, engineers and technocrats who struggle to run society, victims of an insane system of bureaucratised tyranny; in the north-east are the machines and computers which perform all routine manufacturing tasks; and in the south is the area known locally as Homestead, where almost all of the people live. Those with redundant or non-existent skills are forced into the Army or the Reconstruction and Reclamation Corps – known bitterly as the ‘Reeks and Wrecks’. Robbed of their work, they are deprived of everything that makes them dignified and human. But, underneath the surface, the impulse to rebellion seethes...

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• Editore: Flamingo
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0586090029
• ISBN 13: 9780586090022
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320