Ed Luby's Key Club

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Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly renderedvignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and often funny portrait of life in post-World War II America-a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence.

In ""Ed Luby'sKey Club,"" a man on a dinner date with his wife finds himself plunged into a Kafkaesque nightmare after he's wrongly accused of murder in Ilium, a small town run by one of AlCapone's former bodyguards-and rotten to the core with official corruption.

""Ed Luby's Key Club"" and the thirteen othernever-before-published pieces that comprise Look at the Birdie serve as an unexpected gift for devoted readers who thought that Kurt Vonnegut's unique voice had been stilledforever-and provide a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius.

Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him, in the words of The New York Times, as “a true artist” with the publication of Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.