BOOK REVIEW: Look At The Birdie

Posted October 31st, 2009 by Joshua Chaplinsky

Vonnegut haunts us from the grave with another posthumous collection of effortless short fiction.

Review by: Joshua Chaplinsky
"Look At The Birdie" by Kurt Vonnegut

His second posthumous collection of prehumous stories, Look At The Birdie focuses on the unpublished early work of Vonnegut's formative years. Phantonymns aside, the stories that make up Birdie share a specific point in time. Whereas the stories in his previous collection, Armageddon in Retrospect, shared the themes of war and peace, the stories that make up Birdie paint a broad picture of post World War II America by nature of when they were written. 

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