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Kurt Vonnegut
During his long career, Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut - which collects interviews from throughout his…
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Dan Wakefield’s biography of Kurt Vonnegut: You could say the same for his stories, novels, and memoirs. And for the way he spoke. He said things that other people thought…
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Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers.
The title is pronounced 2 B R naught 2 B , referencing the famous phrase to be, or not to be from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. In this…
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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…
Kurt Vonnegut takes the listener back one million years. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the…
A short story by Kurt Vonnegut originally written in 1953. It was first published in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine in January 1954. The title is the protagonist’s euphemism for dying.
Launched in November, Dell’s Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world’s great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects…
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…
A never-before-seen collection of deeply personal love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter
A glimpse into the mind of a writer…
An anthology of previously uncollected short stories features twenty-four of the author’s favorite tales, including Any Reasonable Offer, The Powder-Blue Dragon, Hal Irwin’s Magic Lamp, and Lovers Anonymous. .
The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer’s struggle to find peace and sanity in the world.
The first and only collection of unpublished works by Vonnegut since his death is a fitting tribute to the author and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace…
For eight years, big game hunter and war hero Harold Ryan has been presumed dead, lost in the Amazon rainforest while hunting for diamonds. Though his hunting trophies remain, an…
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A previously unpublished collection of six brief fiction stories, one non-fiction essay, and an unfinished science-fiction short story.
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…
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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…
Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and the…
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…
Rudy Waltz hasn’t had it easy. After accidentally committing manslaughter at the age of twelve, the traumas life continued to throw at him seemed almost inconsequential.
Frequently reissued with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographical details.
In 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…
After the universe decides to back up ten years and all humans must live through the 1990s again, author Kurt Vonnegut finds himself trying to write a book called Timequake…
Now in paperback: our finest black-humourist (The Atlantic Monthly) Kurt Vonnegut’s first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his…
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…
Setting the tone for a collection of stories that is shot through with the author’s acrid wit, and his bewilderment at the corruption of humanity, this work includes a title…
This is the second volume of Vonnegut’s autobiographical writings - a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression…
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…
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…
Before winning international fame, Vonnegut was a master of the drugstore paperback and the popular short story. This authoritative collection of his brilliant early work display his matchless talent for…
Eliot Rosewater, a drunk volunteer fireman and president of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature, with a little help from writer…
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Tender stories of love, incisive essays on human greed and misery, and imaginative tales of futuristic happenings reveal Vonnegut’s versatility and vision.
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…
Vonnegut’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…
A small group of apocalypse survivors stranded on the Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave new human race. Vonnegut is a post-modern Mark Twain……
A master of contemporary American literature, Vonnegut has authored 18 highly acclaimed books and dozens of short stories and essays. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from…
Frequently perceptive, and at points ruefully sinister, the 14 never-before-published short stories featured in Vonnegut’s Look at the Birdie date from the years before this American master began his accent…
Tarkington College, a small, exclusive college in upstate New York, is turned upside down when ten thousand prisoners from the maximum security prison across Lake Mohiga break out and head…
One of America’s greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation
