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Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Non-Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -"Los Angeles Times""Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut's] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading "A Man Without a Country" is] like sitting down on the couch for a lo ...Show more
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
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
Category: Fiction
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
Category: Non-Fiction
The art and craft of writing by one of the few grandmasters of American literature, a bonanza for writers and readers written by Kurt Vonnegut's former student. Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and sh ...Show more
Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
Category: Non-Fiction
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
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.
Slapstick or Lonesome No More - Vintage Future by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Fiction
Manhattan has become the Island of Death. The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a cooking fire in the lobby of the Empire State Building. He is Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain and Slapstick or Lonesome No More! is his story - one of monstrous twins, orgies, reveng ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of a unique book: one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century.Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhou ...Show more
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels Ser.
"Slaughterhous-Five" is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. "From the Paperback edition."
Slaughterhouse - Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Fiction
Billy Pilgrim survives capture by the Gemans in World War II, the Dresden bombings, and the struggle for financial success only to be kidnapped in a flying saucer and taken to the planet Tralfamadore.
Slaughterhouse Five (50th Anniversary Edition) by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Fiction | Series: VINTAGE CLASSICS
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Fiction
Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.