Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Slaughterhouse-five ISBN: 0440180295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780440180296 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 920.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
Описание: Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time).
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”
An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.”
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Cat`s Cradle ISBN: 0241951607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241951606 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1188.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
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: Cat`s Cradle ISBN: 0141189347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141189345 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (5 шт.) Описание: Dr Felix Hoenikker is the inventor of `ice-nine`, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker`s three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean. Felix Hoenikker`s Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to mankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Breakfast of Champions ISBN: 0099842602 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099842606 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: от 1309.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Cat`s cradle HB ISBN: 0575081953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780575081956 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 1516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: One of America`s greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: A Man Without a Country ISBN: 081297736X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812977363 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations . . . this is what he is like in person."-USA Today In a volume that is penetrating, introspective, incisive, and laugh-out-loud funny, one of the great men of letters of this age-or any age-holds forth on life, art, sex, politics, and the state of America's soul. From his coming of age in America, to his formative war experiences, to his life as an artist, this is Vonnegut doing what he does best: Being himself. Whimsically illustrated by the author, A Man Without a Country is intimate, tender, and brimming with the scope of Kurt Vonnegut's passions. Praise for A Man Without a Country " 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 long chat with an old friend."-The New York Times Book Review
"Filled with Vonnegut's] usual contradictory mix of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, humor and gravity."-Chicago Tribune "Fans will linger on every word . . . as once again Vonnegut] captures the complexity of the human condition with stunning calligraphic simplicity."-The Australian "Thank God, Kurt Vonnegut has broken his promise that he will never write another book. In this wondrous assemblage of mini-memoirs, we discover his family's legacy and his obstinate, unfashionable humanism."-Studs Terkel
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Kurt Vonnegut: Letters ISBN: 0099582945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099582946 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
Описание: 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.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Mother night ISBN: 0099819309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099819301 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `Black satire of the highest polish` GuardianWhilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Can a black or white verdict ever be reached in a world that`s a gazillion shades of grey?`After Vonnegut, everything else seems a bit tame` Spectator
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Timequake ISBN: 0099267543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099267546 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Look at the Birdie: Short Fiction ISBN: 0385343728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385343725 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1368.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Relentlessly fun to read."--Dave Eggers - A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post-World War II America--a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. Here are tales both cautionary and hopeful, each brimming with Vonnegut's trademark humor and profound humanism. A family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. A man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. A quack psychiatrist turned "murder counselor" concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. While these stories reflect the anxieties of the postwar era that Vonnegut was so adept at capturing--and provide insight into the development of his early style--collectively, they have a timeless quality that makes them just as relevant today as when they were written. It's impossible to imagine any of these pieces flowing from the pen of another writer; each in its own way is unmistakably, quintessentially Vonnegut. Featuring a foreword by author and longtime Vonnegut confidant Sidney Offit and illustrated with Vonnegut's characteristically insouciant line drawings, Look at the Birdie is an unexpected gift for readers who thought his unique voice had been stilled forever--and serves as a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius. Includes these never-before-published stories: "Confido" "FUBAR" "Shout About It from the Housetops" "Ed Luby's Key Club" "A Song for Selma" "Hall of Mirrors" "The Nice Little People" "Hello, Red" "Little Drops of Water" "The Petrified Ants" "The Honor of a Newsboy" "Look at the Birdie" "King and Queen of the Universe" "The Good Explainer" " Look at the Birdie] brings us the late writer's young voice as he skewers--sometimes gently, always lethally--post World War II America."--The Boston Globe
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Hocus Pocus ISBN: 0099877104 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099877103 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1319.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a little impatient with allegory and more than a little impatient with his own country` - New York Times Book ReviewSome get all the luck - but not Eugene Debs Hartke.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Sirens of Titan ISBN: 0385333498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385333498 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Winston has flown his craft into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, and been converted into pure energy. Materializing only when his waveforms intercept a planet, he only gets home once every 59 days. But at least it's some consolation that he knows all that ever has been and all that ever will be.
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