Welcome to the Monkey House
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6…This short-story collection Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) incorporates almost completely Vonnegut’s 1961 “Canary in a Cathouse”, which appeared within a few months of Slaughterhouse-Five and capitalized upon that breakthrough novel and the enormous attention it suddenl….Read More
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