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Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction
First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, "Armageddon in Retrospect" is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humour, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during W ...Show more
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humour, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during Wor ...Show more
Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction
It's New York, 1950. A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit his job and join the likes of Salinger, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner, and make a living as a full-time writer. That young man was Kurt Vonnegut. "Bagom ...Show more
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
Bluebeard, published in 1987, is Vonnegut's meditation on art, artists, surrealism, and disaster. Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of ...Show more
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Ki ...Show more
Breakfast of Champions Audio by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Category: Audio Books
Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist"* with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, "one of ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' 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 capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Dr Felix Hoenikker - a father of the atomic bomb - has another creation. Far more dangerous than that which levelled Hiroshima- ice-nine, a chemical that could freeze the world's oceans solid. The search for Hoenikker leads first to his three children, each in possession of the chemical, and then to the ...Show more
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.' 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 capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads ...Show more
Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
Deadeye 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 along on a zany search ...Show more
Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Biography & Memoir
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 to the future of the planet and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Honest, dark, rambling, funny; this rare glimpse of Vonnegut's so ...Show more
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction
In 1998, Kurt Vonnegut was sent to the afterlife by National Public Radio to conduct a series of (fictionalised) interviews. This adventure takes the form of a series of transcripts from these encounters - brief pieces which were originally read on WNYC, Manhattan's public radio station, but have now be ...Show more