Canary in the Cat House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Greenwich. 1961. Fawcett Gold Medal. paperback. 160 pages. September 1961. s1153. Cover illustration and design by Leo and Diane Dillon.
FROM THE PUBLISHER -
Off the top of his head – the short, wild fantasies of one of America’s most imaginative writers - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Scarifying satirist by trade, sings for his supper in a world he regards as a house of ill-repute, or worse - Twelve brilliant stories of today, and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical pacifist intellectual. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association. The New York Times headline at the time of Vonnegut's passing called Vonnegut ‘the counterculture's novelist.’