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Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
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
Cat's Cradle: Popular Penguins by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics/Literature | 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
Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Classics/Literature
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
If This isn't Nice, What is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: Graduation Speeches and Other Advice to the Young by Kurt Vonnegut
$39.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development/Psychology
Best known as one of America's most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. If This Isn't Nice, What Is? collects the speeches and words of wisdom Vonnegut has shared with new graduates over the years. This much-expanded edition no ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: Complete Stories by Dave (FRW) Dan (EDT); Eggers Jerome (EDT); Wakefield Kurt; Klinkowitz Vonnegut
$75.00 AUD
Category: New 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
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
This collection includes the letter the twenty-two-year old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from the German POW camp; wry dispatches from Vonnegut's years as a struggling writer; a letter to the CEO of Eagle Shirtmakers with a crackpot scheme to manufacture "atomic" bow ties; angry lett ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut - Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt b ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Reading Level: very good
During his long career, Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut - which collects interviews from throughout his career - we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end. Kurt Vonn ...Show more
Player Piano (PB) by KURT VONNEGUT
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Vonnegut's spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines.
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | 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.
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
A beautiful hardback edition of a unique book: one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century.Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhou ...Show more
Slaughterhouse 5 (Vintage Past) by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Seco ...Show more