Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Timequake ISBN: 0099275368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099275367 Издательство: Random House Цена: 460 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience, and decides to go back to 1991, making everyone in the world endure 10 years of deja vu, and a loss of free will.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Slaughterhouse 5 ISBN: 0099800209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099800200 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 691 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (3 шт.) Описание: 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.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: While mortals sleep ISBN: 0099529068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099529064 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: от 691 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: Set in trailers, bars and factories, Vonnegut conjures up a world where men and machines, art and artifice, fame and fortune become curiously twisted and characters pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and comically indifferent world.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Slaughterhouse-five ISBN: 0440180295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780440180296 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 512 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (2 шт.) Описание: Billy Pilgrim survives capture by the Gemans in World War II, the Dresden bombings, and the struggle for financial success only to be kidnapped in a flying saucer and taken to the planet Tralfamadore.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Deadeye Dick ISBN: 0385334176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385334174 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: от 1090 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: A young boy's life is irrevocably changed when he accidently kills a pregnant woman whi playing with one of his father's many rifles.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Cat`s Cradle ISBN: 0241951607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241951606 Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd Рейтинг: Цена: от 668 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: 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 to Hoenikker`s three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Sirens of titan ISBN: 1857988841 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857988840 Издательство: Orion Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 752 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: The second novel of the acclaimed author of SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 and most recently, TIMEQUAKE.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Kurt Vonnegut: Letters ISBN: 0385343760 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385343763 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1282 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY "Newsweek"/The Daily Beast - The Huffington Post" - Kansas City Star - Time Out New York - Kirkus Reviews" This extraordinary collection of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction. Written over a sixty-year period, these letters, the vast majority of them never before published, are funny, moving, and full of the same uncanny wisdom that has endeared his work to readers worldwide. Included in this comprehensive volume: the letter a twenty-two-year-old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from a German POW camp, recounting the ghastly firebombing of Dresden that would be the subject of his masterpiece "Slaughterhouse-Five;" wry dispatches from Vonnegut's years as a struggling writer slowly finding an audience and then dealing with sudden international fame in middle age; righteously angry letters of protest to local school boards that tried to ban his work; intimate remembrances penned to high school classmates, fellow veterans, friends, and family; and letters of commiseration and encouragement to such contemporaries as Gail Godwin, Gunter Grass, and Bernard Malamud. Vonnegut's unmediated observations on science, art, and commerce prove to be just as inventive as any found in his novels--from a crackpot scheme for manufacturing "atomic" bow ties to a tongue-in-cheek proposal that publishers be allowed to trade authors like baseball players. ("Knopf, for example, might give John Updike's contract to Simon and Schuster, and receive Joan Didion's contract in return.") Taken together, these letters add considerable depth to our understanding of this one-of-a-kind literary icon, in both his public and private lives. Each letter brims with the mordant humor and openhearted humanism upon which he built his legend. And virtually every page contains a quotable nugget that will make its way into the permanent Vonnegut lexicon. - On a job he had as a young man: "Hell is running an elevator throughout eternity in a building with only six floors." - To a relative who calls him a "great literary figure" "I am an American fad--of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop." - To his daughter Nanny: "Most letters from a parent contain a parent's own lost dreams disguised as good advice." - To Norman Mailer: "I am cuter than you are." Sometimes biting and ironical, sometimes achingly sweet, and always alive with the unique point of view that made him the true cultural heir to Mark Twain, these letters comprise the autobiography Kurt Vonnegut never wrote. Praise for "Kurt Vonnegut: Letters" "Splendidly assembled . . . familiar, funny, cranky . . . chronicling Vonnegut's] life in real time."--Kurt Andersen, "The New York Times Book Review" " " " This collection is] by turns hilarious, heartbreaking and mundane. . . . Vonnegut himself is a near-perfect example of the same flawed, wonderful humanity that he loved and despaired over his entire life."--"NPR" "Congenial, whimsical and often insightful missives . . . one of Vonnegut's] very best."--"Newsday" "These letters display all the hallmarks of Vonnegut's fiction--smart, hilarious and heartbreaking."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"From the Hardcover edition."
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: We are What We Pretend to be ISBN: 0306822784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780306822780 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1435 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Called"our finest black-humourist" by The Atlantic Monthly , Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be . Written to be sold under the pseudonym of"Mark Harvey," Basic Training was never published in Vonnegut`s lifetime. It appears to have been written in the late 1940s and is therefore Vonnegut`s first ever novella. It is a bitter, profoundly disenchanted story that satirizes the military, authoritarianism, gender relationships, parenthood and most of the assumed mid-century myths of the family. Haley Brandon, the adolescent protagonist, comes to the farm of his relative, the old crazy who insists upon being called The General, to learn to be a straight-shooting American. Haley`s only means of survival will lead him to unflagging defiance of the General`s deranged (but oh so American, oh so military) values. This story and its thirtyish author were no friends of the milieu to which the slick magazines` advertisers were pitching their products. When Vonnegut passed away in 2007, he left his last novel unfinished. Entitled If God Were Alive Today , this last work is a brutal satire on societal ignorance and carefree denial of the world`s major problems. Protagonist Gil Berman is a middle-aged college lecturer and self-declared stand-up comedian who enjoys cracking jokes in front of a college audience while societal dependence on fossil fuels has led to the apocalypse. Described by Vonnegut as,"the stand-up comedian on Doomsday," Gil is a character formed from Vonnegut`s own rich experiences living in a reality Vonnegut himself considered inevitable. p class="MsoNormal"Along with the two works of fiction, Vonnegut`s daughter, Nanette shares reminiscences about her father and commentary on these two works- both exclusive to this edition. In this fiction collection, published in print for the first time, exist Vonnegut`s grand themes: trust no one, trust nothing and the only constants are absurdity and resignation, which themselves cannot protect us from the void but might divert.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Happy Birthday, Wanda June ISBN: 0099583666 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099583660 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 767 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: For eight years, big game hunter and war hero Harold Ryan has been presumed dead, lost in the Amazon rainforest while hunting for diamonds. Though his hunting trophies remain, an inexplicable birthday cake sits in the living room bearing a strange icing inscription: Happy Birthday Wanda June.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Fates Worse Than Death ISBN: 009958347X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099583479 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 767 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the second volume of Vonnegut`s autobiographical writings - a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of the planet and Andrew Lloyd Webber. this rare glimpse of Vonnegut`s soul is a dagger to the heart of Western complacency.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Kurt Vonnegut: Letters ISBN: 0099582945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099582946 Издательство: Random House Рейтинг: Цена: 1151 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, the author is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: `I am an American fad-of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop.` This title deals with these works.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Kurt Vonnegut: Letters ISBN: 0099582937 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099582939 Издательство: Random House Цена: 1920 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Kurt Vonnegut: Letters ISBN: 0385343752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385343756 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3350 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: This extraordinary collection of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction. Written over a sixty-year period, these letters, the vast majority of them never before published, are funny, moving, and full of the same uncanny wisdom that has endeared his work to readers worldwide. Included in this comprehensive volume: the letter a twenty-two-year-old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from a German POW camp, recounting the ghastly firebombing of Dresden that would be the subject of his masterpiece "Slaughterhouse-Five;" wry dispatches from Vonnegut's years as a struggling writer slowly finding an audience and then dealing with sudden international fame in middle age; righteously angry letters of protest to local school boards that tried to ban his work; intimate remembrances penned to high school classmates, fellow veterans, friends, and family; and letters of commiseration and encouragement to such contemporaries as Gail Godwin, Gunter Grass, and Bernard Malamud. Vonnegut's unmediated observations on science, art, and commerce prove to be just as inventive as any found in his novels--from a crackpot scheme for manufacturing "atomic" bow ties to a tongue-in-cheek proposal that publishers be allowed to trade authors like baseball players. ("Knopf, for example, might give John Updike's contract to Simon and Schuster, and receive Joan Didion's contract in return.") Taken together, these letters add considerable depth to our understanding of this one-of-a-kind literary icon, in both his public and private lives. Each letter brims with the mordant humor and openhearted humanism upon which he built his legend. And virtually every page contains a quotable nugget that will make its way into the permanent Vonnegut lexicon. - On a job he had as a young man: "Hell is running an elevator throughout eternity in a building with only six floors." - To a relative who calls him a "great literary figure" "I am an American fad--of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop." - To his daughter Nanny: "Most letters from a parent contain a parent's own lost dreams disguised as good advice." - To Norman Mailer: "I am cuter than you are." Sometimes biting and ironical, sometimes achingly sweet, and always alive with the unique point of view that made him the true cultural heir to Mark Twain, these letters comprise the autobiography Kurt Vonnegut never wrote.
