| 312 products found for Vonnegut  | SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE, a best-seller when it was first published in 1969, brought Kurt Vonnegut to prominence as a major voice in American fiction. Vonnegut was a POW held in Dresden in 1945 when the city was attacked by American bombers and virtually... |  | LOOK AT THE BIRDIE contains 14 previously unpublished short stories by the late, great, satirist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Drawn mostly from the early years of his writing career, these stories contain the first strains of Vonnegut's unforgettable style:... | 7+BKcL2,CCwQ~~_6.JPG) | After crashing his spaceship, Winston Niles Rumfoord is transformed into a "wave phenomenon," a telepathic being who travels in an orbit from the sun to the constellation Betelgeuse, landing on Earth once every 59 days. Rumfoord drafts an earthling... |  | Rabo Karabekian, an Armenian-American ex-painter, is a disillusioned one-eyed divorcé whose children loathe him. In the 1950s he was a drinking partner of the Abstract Expressionists Jackson Pollack and Mark Rothko, and in his old age he lives off... |  | As he awaits trail in Israeli for crimes against humanity, the fictional Howard W. Campbell (based loosely on William Joyce) narrates his story: an American in Germany on the onset of World War II, Campbell, a playwright and devoted husband, worked... |  | PLAYER PIANO, Kurt Vonnegut's debut, marked the arrival of a wildly inventive and devilishly satiric voice in American letters. Set in a science fiction dystopia where society is almost entirely run by (and for) machines, Doctor Paul Proteus is one... |  | Kurt Vonnegut's seventh novel, BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (1973), begins like a primer on American history for children in which Columbus is a "white sea pirate," bent on rape and pillage, who leaves a legacy of hypocrisy and power-grabbing that was... |  | In this post-apocalyptic novel, a group of tourists is stranded on the Galapagos Islands, where they become the progenitors of a new race of humans with small brains, flippers for hands, and no interest in sex--the reverse of all the characteristics... |  | A posthumous collection of stories and nonfiction from that bleakly brilliant humorist, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT contains a few unseen gems from his life, including a 1954 letter he wrote to his family telling them that he was... |  | Kurt Vonnegut's seventh novel, BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS (1973), begins like a primer on American history for children in which Columbus is a "white sea pirate," bent on rape and pillage, who leaves a legacy of hypocrisy and power-grabbing that was... |
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