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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
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: Classics | 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
Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Biography and Memoir
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir." -"Los Angeles Times""Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut's] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading "A Man Without a Country" is] like sitting down on the couch for a lo ...Show more
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr - an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy - not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror of it ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (50th Anniversary Edition) by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics | Series: VINTAGE CLASSICS
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
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.
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course ther ...Show more
While Mortals Sleep by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics
A collection of sixteen previously unpublished stories by the twentieth century master. In While Mortals Sleep men and machines, art and artifice, fortune and fame become curiously twisted. A travelling salesman falls in love a robot, Jenny, a refrigerator with personality. A man plays with his model t ...Show more
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