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These are stories about how people and machines, art and craft, and the ideals of wealth, fame, and love can lead to strange twists in ordinary lives. A man managing an army of bulldozers, graders, and asphalt layers builds roads while wasting his time playing with miniature trains—until the woman in his life shatters this dream world. A dreamy young girl trapped in a stenography pool receives an intriguing offer from a tape left by a fugitive robber. A grumpy journalist, forced to be a jury member on a committee evaluating Christmas lights, encounters both a former convict who casts suspicion on his lavish lifestyle and then a miracle. A widow living on her late husband's pig farm begins receiving mysterious, unexpected letters about "the indescribable sweet pains of the soul" from a man in Schenectady. What will she find when she goes to meet him?
Buchkauf
Když smrtelníci spí (While Mortals Sleep), Kurt Vonnegut
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Verlag
- Argo
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
- ISBN10
- 0385343744
- ISBN13
- 9780385343749
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Humor, Sci-Fi, Klassiker, Kurzgeschichten, Amerikanische Literatur
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2002
- Originaltitel
- While Mortals Sleep
- Bewertung
- 3,7 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- These are stories about how people and machines, art and craft, and the ideals of wealth, fame, and love can lead to strange twists in ordinary lives. A man managing an army of bulldozers, graders, and asphalt layers builds roads while wasting his time playing with miniature trains—until the woman in his life shatters this dream world. A dreamy young girl trapped in a stenography pool receives an intriguing offer from a tape left by a fugitive robber. A grumpy journalist, forced to be a jury member on a committee evaluating Christmas lights, encounters both a former convict who casts suspicion on his lavish lifestyle and then a miracle. A widow living on her late husband's pig farm begins receiving mysterious, unexpected letters about "the indescribable sweet pains of the soul" from a man in Schenectady. What will she find when she goes to meet him?