BOOKS by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE, a best-seller when it was first published in 1969, brought Kurt Vonnegut to prominence as a major voice in American fiction. Vonnegut was a POW held in Dresden in 1945 when the city was attacked by American bombers and virtually obliterated, leaving more than 130,000 people dead. He uses that event as the climax of this ...
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Cat's Cradle
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One of Vonnegut's most highly praised novels. Filled with humor and unforgettable characters, this apocalyptic story tells of Earth's ultimate end, and presents a vision of the future that is both darkly fantastic and funny, as Vonnegut weaves a satirical commentary on modern man and his madness.
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Breakfast of Champions
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Kurt Vonnegut's seventh novel, BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (1973), begins like a primer on American history for children in which Columbus is a "white sea pirate," bent on rape and pillage, who leaves a legacy of hypocrisy and power-grabbing that was eagerly embraced by the Founding Fathers and generations of greedy Americans to come. The rest of the ...
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A Man Without a Country
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Kurt Vonnegut's first new book in nearly 10 years is a collection of the essays he has published during that time, illustrated with his inimitable--and often hilarious--line drawings. Vonnegut writes on such topics as death, literature, the state of the American soul, the necessity for making art, and, of course, the administration of George W. ...
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Sirens of Titan
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After crashing his spaceship, Winston Niles Rumfoord is transformed into a "wave phenomenon," a telepathic being who travels in an orbit from the sun to the constellation Betelgeuse, landing on Earth once every 59 days. Rumfoord drafts an earthling named Malachi Constant as the prophet of a new religion. Constant travel to distant planets in ...
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Hocus Pocus
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With Swiftian satire and gonzo wit, Kurt Vonnegut creates a mordant novel of the turn of the twenty-first century that will knock America's socks off. The consummate portraitist of the modern American psyche sketches out our dreams and nightmares, foibles and longings, in an admixture of magic, surrealism, and down-home high jinks that have made ...
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Bluebeard
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Broad humor and bitter irony collide in Vonnegut's fictional biography of aging artist Rabo Karabekian--first introduced in Breakfast of Champions--who wants only to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked in his potato barn. "A joyous, soaring fiction".--Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
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Deadeye Dick
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A funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes readers on a zany search for absolution and happiness in this tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe and who we say we are. "Vonnegut is . . . a zany but moral mad scientist".--Time.
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Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
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Early in his career, Vonnegut published a number of stories in magazines, including the Saturday Evening Post and Argosy. Here are 24 of them, collected for the first time.
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God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
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Kurt Vonnegut puts on his reporter's vest for this book of interviews and profiles, but since all his subjects are dead, it's only with Dr. Jack Kevorkian's help that he manages to make contact with them. He hangs around heaven as long as he can, interviewing history's finest, including Shakespeare, John Brown, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and ...
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Fates Worse Than Death
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This 1992 book is a series of autobiographical musings.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Armageddon in Retrospect: And Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace
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The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death is a fitting tribute to the author and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity's tendency toward violence.
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Slapstick: Or Lonesome No More!
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Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today's follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Vonnegut's pen into hilarious farce (a final slapstick that may be the ...
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Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
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Autobiographical writings, including a discussion of Vonnegut's suicide attempt.
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June
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In his first published play, Kurt Vonnegut finds a powerful vehicle for his tragicomical imagination. When the great hunter Harold Ryan--missing and presumed dead--returns from Africa after eight years, his wife is aghast and his son is enchanted. Vonnegut's attack on phony heroes and male swagger uses some of the funniest dialogue ever created ...
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Palm Sunday
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Sun, moon, star
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When the Creator of the universe came to Earth, It resolved to be born a male human infant, and this is what It saw when It opened Its eyes.
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Slaughter-House Five
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The story of Billy Pilgrim, who was a soldier in Dresden when it was fire bombed, a survivor of an airplane crash, a dentist, and a time traveler.
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Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Lee Stringer, Daniel Simon (Foreword by)
In this elegantly produced, extended conversation celebrating the writing craft, Kurt Vonnegut and acclaimed "Grand Central Winter" author Lee Stringer explore what it means to be a writer -- and what it means to be human. It is an increasingly rare occasion these days to find two writers willing to speak candidly, thoughtfully, and concretely ...
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Canary in a Cat House
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Like Shaking Hands with God
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Lee Stringer, Art Shay (Adapted by)
In this lavishly presented package that celebrates the writing craft, authors Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer touch on the process of writing, being a writer, and what it means to be human. of photos.
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You Back the Attack! We'll Bomb Who We Want!: Remixed War Propaganda
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Micah Ian Wright, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Foreword by), Howard Zinn, Ph.D. (Introduction by)
The Emmy-nominated writer for Nicktoons' "The Angry Beavers" presents this collection of provocative political posters from World War I and World War II that have been reworked for the post-9/11 era and skewer the war mentality, the Bush White House, and the War on Terror. 40 full-color posters.
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The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
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Mark Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Foreword by)
"Most diseases can be separated from one's self . . . schizophrenia is something we are." So begins Mark Vonnegut's depiction of his descent into, and eventual emergence from, mental illness. This edition features a new Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut and a new Preface by the author. An ALA Notable Book.
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At Millennium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut
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Kevin Alexander Boone (Editor), Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Foreword by)
A specialist in American studies edits this collection of essays on Vonnegut, which cover the novelist's various obsessions (apocalyptic visions, technological disasters, alienation) as well as the films based on his works and his relationship to other writers.
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