{"product_id":"9780099548850","title":"Look at the Birdie","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Vonnegut, Kurt\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 16 September 2010 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 132 x 21 | 246g\u003cp\u003eLook at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. In 'Confido,' a family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. In 'Ed Luby's Key Club,' a man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. In 'Look at the Birdie,' a quack psychiatrist turned 'murder counsellor' concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. The stories are cautionary they also brim with his trademark humour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWry, ironic, satirical and poignant Look at the Birdie reflects the anxieties of the postwar era in which they were written and provides an insight into the development of Vonnegut's early style\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vonnegut, Kurt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50666591289528,"sku":"9780099548850","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780099548850.jpg?v=1734749297","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780099548850","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}