{"product_id":"brief-encounters-monkey-business-paperback","title":"Brief Encounters: Monkey Business (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFour of Kurt Vonnegut’s best dystopian stories, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMonkey Business\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e distils his darkly comic vision of the modern world and the cost of trying to engineer a better life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a future where everyone is forced to be equal, a gifted teenager dares to rebel. A suburban family discovers a device that delivers perfect happiness. A world frightened of death turns to drugs to slow the march of time. And in a quiet American town, a couple must decide how many children they are willing to raise – for ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAbout The Author:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eKurt Vonnegut was a writer, lecturer and painter. He was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. First published in 1950, he went on to write fourteen novels, four plays, and three short story collections, in addition to countless works of short fiction and nonfiction. He died in 2007.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PANSING DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45619934658767,"sku":"9781529983913","price":22.96,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_7bfacb77-c6c2-48f4-9446-5f7789d92c13.jpg?v=1784793758","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/brief-encounters-monkey-business-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}