Vonnegut's Player Piano

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for General Electric and did some stories on the side, earning him lots of money. He then left General Electric and moved to Cape Cod, Massachusetts to become a writer full time in 1951. Vonnegut then wrote his first novel Player Piano which draws upon Vonnegut's experience as an employee at General Electric. He satirizes the drive to climb the corporate ladder, one that in Player Piano is rapidly disappearing as automation increases, putting even executives out of work. The book came out to mainly positive reviews for its clever storytelling and satire which would become a staple for his writing. After some success with his first novel Vonnegut began to struggle to come up with anything majorly noteworthy leaving both readers and critics

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