Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
Kyrt Vonegyt
For this unusual collection, Kurt Vonnegut has selected 24 of his favourite stories never published before in book form. Included are Any Reasonable Offer , The Powder Blue Dragon , Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp and Lovers Anonymous. |
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Slaughterhouse 5
Kyrt Vonegyt
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. |
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Timequake
Kyrt Vonegyt
According to Vonnegut`s alter ego, science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 february 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great ... [ more ] |
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Mother Night
Kyrt Vonegyt
A companion novel to Slaughterhouse 5 , covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire, it tells of an American spy in Germany who becomes confused by his own methods as ... [ more ] |
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Vonnegut Omnibus: Welcome to the Monkey House , Palm Sunday
Kyrt Vonegyt
An anthology of writings by Kurt Vonnegut. Welcome to the Monkeyhouse brings together some of his shorter essays and stories, and Palm Sunday consists of speeches, letters, fiction, articles and autobiography. |
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Breakfast of Champions
Kyrt Vonegyt
The author of Slaughterhouse 5 and Hocus Pocus satirizes the horrors of plastic, disposable America with a mixture of cartoons and comic outbursts against rules and reason... |
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Hocus Pocus
Kyrt Vonegyt
This is a satirical, fiction autobiography of a West Point-trained Vietnam veteran. In the year 2001, the old soldier has been arrested for masterminding the largest prison break in history. Now his son wants to know more about him... |
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Slapstick, Or, Lonesome No More!
Kyrt Vonegyt
Wilbur and Eliza Swain are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that their wealthy parents send them to live on a nearby asteroid. But the monstrous pair possess a joint intelligence that could outstrip the most advanced computers... |
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God bless you, Mr. Rosewater
Kyrt Vonegyt
A novel about people, their pleasures, pains and perversions, and money. It is a satire on insanity - a millionaire's private lunacy, the inherited obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness that grips a whole nation. |
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Jailbird
Kyrt Vonegyt
When Walter F. Starbuck, the least celebrated of the Watergate conspirators, is freed from jail after two years, his first 24 hours of freedom take shape with the unforeseen turns of fortune and moral innuendo of an urban fairytale. |
