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Kurt Vonnegut
This first volume of a projected three-volume edition gathers four of Vonnegut’s most acclaimed novels: Cat’s Cradle; God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Slaughterhouse-Five ; and Breakfast of Champions. The volume…
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He is Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain and Slapstick or Lonesome No More! is his story - one of monstrous twins, orgies, revenge, golf, utopian schemes, and very little tooth brushing…
A new preface by the author highlights this 25th anniversary edition of Vonnegut’s classic and supremely unconventional World War II novel. Based on Vonnegut’s experiences as a POW, this anti-war…
With the satirical eye of his science fiction author alter ego Kilgore Trout, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five delivers a classic of modern American literature. Eliot Rosewater, President of the fabulously…
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A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. That young man was Kurt Vonnegut. Bagombo Snuff Box collects Vonnegut’s favourite stories from the postwar years…
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…
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Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi…
One of America’s greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation
Tender stories of love, incisive essays on human greed and misery, and imaginative tales of futuristic happenings reveal Vonnegut’s versatility and vision.
Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented…
What began as a series of 90-second radio interludes evolved into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we live for, and how much it all matters in…
In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum…
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Lee Stringer,Kurt Vonnegut
Vonnegut and Stinger talk about the place where the lives they lead meet the art they practice.
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It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not…
Using the laid-back, ironic voice that has become his stademark, Vonnegut combines fiction and fact to construct an ingenious, wry morality play’ - Newsweek Vonnegut’s riotous urban fairytale about the…
First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut’s death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution…
One of America’s greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation.
Gleaned from short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author throughout, Only Kidding delivers Vonnegut both speaking out with indignation…
Dr Felix Hoenikker is the inventor of ‘ice-nine’, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker’s three ecentric children, to a crazed…
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…
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