The Howling Decorum: Kurt Vonnegut Fact #6

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Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel, received few reviews, the bulk of which were lukewarm, and sold only 3,600 copies of the roughly 7,000 that were printed. While it earned him an advance for a second novel - if only out of the charity of his publishers - he was too depressed to get…