While Mortals Sleep (short story collection)  

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"I used to wonder what was going to become of all the Americans like him, a bright and shiny new race that believed that life was a matter of making one’s family richer and richer and richer, or it wasn’t life. I often wondered what would become of them, if bad times ever came again, if the bright and shiny men suddenly discovered their net worths going down." --"The Epizootic"

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While Mortals Sleep is a collection of sixteen previously unpublished short stories by Kurt Vonnegut, released on January 25, 2011. It is the third posthumously published Kurt Vonnegut book, the first being Armageddon in Retrospect, the second being Look at the Birdie. The book begins with a foreword by Dave Eggers. Illustrations by Vonnegut himself appear throughout. Many of the stories have a moralistic tone.

In “The Humbugs” two artists, one critically acclaimed abstract-expressionist, the other a Bob Ross-style realist painter of kitsch compete.

Contents

  1. "Jenny"
  2. "The Epizootic"
  3. "Hundred-Dollar Kisses"
  4. "Guardian of the Person"
  5. “With His Hand on the Throttle"
  6. "Girl Pool”
  7. “Ruth”
  8. “While Mortals Sleep”
  9. “Out, Brief Candle”
  10. “Tango”
  11. “Bomar”
  12. “The Man Without No Kiddleys”
  13. “Mr. Z”
  14. “$10,000 a Year, Easy”
  15. "Money Talks”
  16. "The Humbugs"




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