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A Man without a Country : A Memoir of Life in George W. Bush's America by Kurt Vonnegut
32.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut
Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
54.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, "Armageddon in Retrospect" is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace.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
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
17.99 NZD
Category: General 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
38.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Reading Level: very good
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
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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
27.00 NZD
30.00 (10% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inve ...Show more
Cat's Cradle - out of print by Kurt Vonnegut
19.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon, and, worse still, surviving it ... Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is th ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: Complete Stories by Dave (FRW) Dan (EDT); Eggers Jerome (EDT); Wakefield Kurt; Klinkowitz Vonnegut
90.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
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
Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut
28.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
"Look at the Birdie" evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. In "Confido", a family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets int ...Show more
Love, Kurt - The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 by Kurt Vonnegut; Edith Vonnegut (Editor)
70.00 NZD
Category: History
A never-before-seen collection of deeply intimate love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter and reproduced in gorgeous full color."If ever I do write anything of length--good or bad--it will be written with you in mind."Kurt Vonnegut's oldest daughter ...Show more
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
30.99 NZD
40.00 (22% off)
Category: General Fiction
'Black satire of the highest polish? GuardianWhilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Campbell Jr sets down his memoirs on an old German typewriter. He has used such a typewriter before, when he worked as a Nazi propagandist under Goebbels. Though that was before he agreed to ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (50th Anniversary Edition) by Kurt Vonnegut
30.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | 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