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A Man Without a Country (CD) by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Audio Books
Based on short essays and speeches composed over the last five years. Gives us Vonnegut speaking out with indignation and writing tenderley Americans, sometimes joking, at other times hopeless, always searching.
A Man without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (ed Daniel Simon)
Category: Biography Memoir
A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilarious and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die-God forbid-I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?'"), art ("To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make you ...Show more
A Man without a Country : A Memoir of Life in George W. Bush's America by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Fiction SPECIALS
Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
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published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, "Armageddon in Retrospect" is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace.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
Category: Fiction
To be published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, "Armageddon in Retrospect" is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace.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 humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden dur ...Show more
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
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First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace.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
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
Bagombo Snuff Box - Uncollected Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Classics
"Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at General Electric sold his first short story to one of the doomed publications. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit GE and join the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Faulkner, and try to make a l ...Show more
Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Fiction
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
Category: Classic 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 by VONNEGUT KURT
Category: Fiction
In "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. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in ...Show more