The Thumb Galleries #5
There’s probably cause to rename this feature ‘Amazing Kurt Vonnegut Paperbacks’. Here’s another eye-popper. It’s a dude dressed as the Phantom of the Opera trying to catch a butterfly from within a giant steel head which has had its face torn away.
Let’s say that again.
It’s a dude dressed as the Phantom of the Opera trying to catch a butterfly from within a giant steel head which has had its face torn away.
Stunning.
Kurt Vonnegut - Player Piano
Publication date: 1969
Published by: Panther Books
Price then: It says “5/-“. I don’t even know what that is. Shillings? Bob?
Price now: £5.04
Bought from: Ebay
From the synopsis: “World War Three and the Second Industrial Revolution have come and gone. Now machines and computers perform the routine manufacturing tasks. 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’.”
