Why should you read Kurt Vonnegut? - Mia Nacamulli
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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
- ASIN: 0385333846
- ISBN: 0812988523
- Brand: Delta
- Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing 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 fear most.
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Kurt Vonnegut: The Complete Novels: A Library of America Boxed Set
- ASIN: 1598535099
- ISBN: 1598535099
- Brand: Sidney Offit
- Manufacturer: Library of America
The ultimate Vonnegut: all 14 novels plus a selection of the best of his stories in a definitive collector's boxed set.The novels of Kurt Vonnegut defined a generation a remain among the most enduringly popular and influential works of the last century. Now, for the first time, they are available in a single collector's edition, featuring authorita... [Read More]
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Galapagos: A Novel (Delta Fiction)
- ASIN: 0385333870
- ISBN: 0385333870
- Brand: Kurt Vonnegut
- Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book ReviewGalápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to bec... [Read More]
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Cat's Cradle: A Novel
- ASIN: 038533348X
- ISBN: 038533348X
- Brand: Penguin Random House
- Manufacturer: Dell Publishing
“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet’s ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future... [Read More]
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1987-1997 (LOA #273): Bluebeard / Hocus Pocus / Timequake (Library of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition)
- ASIN: 1598534645
- ISBN: 1598534645
- Brand: LIBRARY OF AMER
- Manufacturer: Library of America
The definitive edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s fiction concludes with three brilliantly satirical novels of the 1980s and ’90s collected in one volume for the first time. Here are the final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the ... [Read More]
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973: Cat's Cradle / God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions / Stories (Library of America, No. 216)
- ASIN: 1598530984
- ISBN: 1598530984
- Brand: Library of America
- Manufacturer: Library of America
Like Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that we can be. His cunningly relaxed delivery was so original, so finely calibrated, and so profound an articulation of the Sixties' spirit that many critics over... [Read More]
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Bluebeard: A Novel (Delta Fiction)
- ASIN: 038533351X
- ISBN: 038533351X
- Brand: Dial Press
- Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
“Ranks with Vonnegut’s best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction.”—The Atlanta Journal and ConstitutionBroad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But ... [Read More]
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Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950-1962 (LOA #226): Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / stories (Library of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition)
- ASIN: 1598531506
- ISBN: 1598531506
- Brand: Library of America
- Manufacturer: Library of America
Before winning international fame with Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut was a master of the drugstore paperback and the popular short story. This authoritative collection of his brilliant early work opens with Player Piano (1952), a Metropolis-like parable of breakneck technological innovation and its effect on those it robs of... [Read More]
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Player Piano: A Novel
- ASIN: 0385333781
- ISBN: 0385333781
- Brand: Dial Press
- Manufacturer: The Dial Press
“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco ChronicleKurt 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 supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, dea... [Read More]
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Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
- ASIN: 0385334206
- ISBN: 0385334206
- Brand: Dial Press Trade Paperback
- Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York TimesIn Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth.... [Read More]
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The Sirens of Titan: A Novel
- ASIN: 0385333498
- ISBN: 0385333498
- Brand: Delta
- Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
“[Kurt Vonnegut’s] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.”—EsquireNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThe Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malach... [Read More]
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Jailbird: A Novel
- ASIN: 0385333900
- ISBN: 0385333900
- Brand: Dial Press
- Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
“[Kurt Vonnegut] has never been more satirically on-target. . . . Nothing is spared.”—PeopleJailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government—and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary a... [Read More]
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Deadeye Dick: A Novel
- ASIN: 0385334176
- ISBN: 0385334176
- Brand: Dial Press
- Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
“The master at his quirky, provocative best.”—CosmopolitanDeadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors—a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us a... [Read More]
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Kurt Vonnegut: Three Complete Novels: Cat's Cradle; God Bless You Mr. Rosewater; Breakfast of Champions
- ASIN: 051712436X
- ISBN: 051712436X
- Manufacturer: Wings Books
Kurt Vonnegut: Three Complete Novels: Cat's Cradle; God Bless You Mr. Rosewater; Breakfast of Champions.
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Mother Night
- ASIN: 0385334141
- ISBN: 0385334141
- Brand: Dial Press
- Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
“Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—TimeMother 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 war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book ri... [Read More]
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Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage
- ASIN: 0425134067
- ISBN: 0425134067
- Manufacturer: Berkley
“An anthology in which Vonnegut freely quotes himself on everything from art and architecture to madness and mass murder...Uncompromising.”—Los Angeles Times“Honest and scarily funny, and it offers a rare insight into an author who has customarily hidden his heart.”—New York TimesHere we have a collection of essays and speeches by me, w... [Read More]
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If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By
- ASIN: 1609806972
- ISBN: 1609806972
- Brand: Seven Stories Press
- Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press
Best known as one of America’s most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. Vonnegut never graduated from college, so his words to any class of graduating seniors always carried the delight, and gentle irony, of someone savoring an achievement he himself had not had occas... [Read More]
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Timequake
- ASIN: 0425164349
- ISBN: 0425164349
- Brand: Berkley Publishing Group
- Manufacturer: Berkley
A New York Times Notable Book from the acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions, and Cat's Cradle.At 2:27pm on February 13th of the year 2001, the Universe suffered a crisis in self-confidence. Should it go on expanding indefinitely? What was the point?There's been a timequake. And everyone—even you—must live the decade b... [Read More]
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Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works
- ASIN: 0385333501
- ISBN: 0385333501
- Brand: Delta
- Manufacturer: Dial Press
“[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending.”—The Charlotte ObserverWelcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science F... [Read More]
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Complete Stories
- ASIN: 1609808088
- ISBN: 1609808088
- Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press
Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically—"War," "Women," "Science," "Romance," "Work Ethic versus Fame and Fortune,... [Read More]
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