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Slaughterhouse-five, or, the children's crusade : a duty-dance with death / by Vonnegut, Kurt.;
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945;
© 1991, c1969., Dell Pub.,
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Hocus pocus / by Vonnegut, Kurt.;
From the author of Timequake, this "irresistible" novel (Cleveland Plain Dealer) tells the story of Eugene Debs Hartke-Vietnam veteran, jazz pianist, college professor, and prognosticator of the apocalypse.
Subjects: Satirical fiction.; Satire.; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Prisoners;
© 1997, ©1990., Berkley,
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Cat's cradle / by Vonnegut, Kurt.;
A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb. This is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Science fiction.; End of the world; Science fiction.; Satire.;
© 2010., Dial Press Trade Paperbacks,
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The sirens of Titan / by Vonnegut, Kurt.;
Malachi Constant, "the richest man in America," gives up his indulgent lifestyle to follow an urgent calling to probe the depths of space. He participates in a Martian invasion of Earth, mates with the wife of an astronaut adrift on the tides of time, and follows the lure of the "Sirens of Titan."
Subjects: Science fiction.;
© 2009., Dial Press Trade paperbacks,
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Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday / by Vonnegut, Kurt.;
The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world.
Subjects: Satire.; Humorous fiction.; Science fiction; Trout, Kilgore (Fictitious character); Sexuality; Mental illness;
© 2011., Dial Press Trade Paperbacks,
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Bluebeard / by Vonnegut, Kurt.;
"Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story--and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves"--Cover.
Subjects: Autobiography; Artists;
© 2011, c1987., Dial Press Trade Paperbacks,
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Player piano / by Vonnegut, Kurt.;
Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. His rebellion is a wildly funny, darkly satirical look at modern society.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Prostitutes; Pianists;
© 2006., Dial Press,
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Timequake / by Vonnegut, Kurt.;
There's been a timequake. And everyone-even you-must live the decade between February 17, 1991 and February 17, 2001 over again. The trick is that we all have to do exactly the same things as we did the first time-minute by minute, hour by hour, year by year, betting on the wrong horse again, marrying the wrong person again. Why? You'll have to ask the old science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout. This was all his idea.
Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); Space and time; Trout, Kilgore (Fictitious character);
© ©1998., Berkley Books,
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Welcome to the monkey house : a collection of short works / by Vonnegut, Kurt.; Sumner, Gregory D.; Vonnegut, Kurt.Where I live.;
A collection of twenty-five short works by the American author written between 1950 and 1968 and originally printed in a wide range of publications including "The Atlantic Monthly," "Esquire," and "Ladies' Home Journal."
Subjects: Science fiction.; Short stories.; Science fiction, American.;
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If this isn't nice, what is? : advice to the young : the graduation speeches / by Vonnegut, Kurt.; Wakefield, Dan.;
Introduction -- Baccalaureate -- How to make money and find love! -- Advice to graduating women (that all men should know!) -- How to have something most billionaires don't -- Why you can't stop me from speaking ill of Thomas Jefferson -- How music cures our ills (and there are lots of them) -- Don't despair if you never went to college! -- What the "ghost dance" of the Native Americans and the French painters who led the Cubist movement had in common -- How I learned from a teacher what artists do -- Don't forget where you come from -- Unstuck in time : quotes to ponder."Chiefly consists of selected graduation speeches given by Vonnegut at various educational institutions"--
Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etc., American.; Baccalaureate addresses.;
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