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Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Contemporary Fiction
Bluebeard, published in 1987, is Vonnegut's meditation on art, artists, surrealism, and disaster. Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of ...Show more
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Ki ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Dr Felix Hoenikker - a father of the atomic bomb - has another creation. Far more dangerous than that which levelled Hiroshima- ice-nine, a chemical that could freeze the world's oceans solid. The search for Hoenikker leads first to his three children, each in possession of the chemical, and then to the ...Show more
Cat's Cradle: Masterworks by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Sci-Fi, Speculative & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Experiment. Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it. Solution. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. ...Show more
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? - The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By by Kurt Vonnegut; Dan Wakefield (Selected by)
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Category: Non-Fiction
Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isn't Nice, What Is? capture a different side of Kurt Vonnegut for the first time in book form. There are nine speeches, seven given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the occasion of ...Show more
Love, Kurt - The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 by Kurt Vonnegut; Edith Vonnegut (Editor)
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Category: Theory & Essays
A never-before-seen collection of deeply intimate love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter and reproduced in gorgeous full color."If ever I do write anything of length--good or bad--it will be written with you in mind."Kurt Vonnegut's oldest daughter ...Show more
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction
From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr - an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy - not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror of it ...Show more
Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Theory & Essays
An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays from novelist Kurt VonnegutIn Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead ...Show more
Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
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Category: Reading, Writing & Storytelling
Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, "Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul." He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Reader is the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why the two ...Show more
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction
The debut novel of Kurt VonnegutVonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. His rebellion is a wildly funny, darkly satirical look at modern society.