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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First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace.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 Wor ...Show more
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
12.95 AUD
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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published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, "Armageddon in Retrospect" is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace.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
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
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
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction
The human survivors of the "nature cruise of the century", are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains. From the author of "Slaughterhouse 5".
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Culture & Ideas
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
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? - The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By by Kurt Vonnegut; Dan Wakefield (Selected by)
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Category: Mind Body Spirit
Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isn't Nice, What Is? capture a different side of Kurt Vonnegut for the first time in book form. There are nine speeches, seven given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the occasion of ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: Complete Stories by Dave (FRW) Dan (EDT); Eggers Jerome (EDT); Wakefield Kurt; Klinkowitz Vonnegut
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Category: Fiction
Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the 20th century's greatest writers. 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 v. Fam ...Show more