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Eco-Heroes: Fiction Book Club

Books / Literature - Lecture/Discussion

Sunday, May 18, 2008
2:00 PM-3:00 AM

Providence Public Library, Central
3rd floor Conference Room
150 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903
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To reserve your book and register, email daustin@provlib.org (preferred) or by call 455-8060.

Sunday, May 18, 2:00pm: Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

Vonnegut's first novel, an unforgiving portrait of an automated and totalitarian future, was published in 1952. It is a chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut-wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality.

About the Author
Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, "one of the best living American writers." Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.

Cost: free

Suggested Audiences: Adult

E-mail: daustin@provlib.org
Phone: 401-455-8060

Last Modified: April 28, 2008 at 8:55 AM

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