Slapstick or Lonesome No More (Vintage Future), Vonnegut Kurt

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Slaughterhouse-five
ISBN: 0440180295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780440180296
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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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: Galapagos
ISBN: 0586090452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586090459
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: From the author of Slaughterhouse 5.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Breakfast of Champions (Vintage Vonnegut)
ISBN: 0099577933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099577935
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Sirens of titan
ISBN: 1857988841 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857988840
Издательство: Orion Publishers
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Описание: Classic Science fiction from one of the world`s most famous authors, soon to be a Tv show from Dan Harmon (Rick & Morty)

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Player Piano
ISBN: 1784876712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784876715
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Player Piano is the debut novel from one of history's most innovative authors, published on Vonnegut's 100th birthday. In Player Piano, the first of Vonnegut's wildly funny and deadly serious novels, automata have dramatically reduced the need for America's work force. Ten years after the introduction of these robot labourers, the only people still working are the engineers and their managers, who live in Ilium; everyone else lives in Homestead, an impoverished part of town characterised by purposelessness and mass produced houses.

Paul Proteus is the manager of Ilium Works. While grateful to be held in high regard, Paul begins to feel uneasy about his position - especially after a trip to Homestead. Eventually, Paul makes the decision to rebel against all he's been given, inciting seismic repercussions...

'His black logic...gives us something to laugh about and much to fear' New York Times Book ReviewWatch the documentary about his life - Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time - on Prime

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Cat`s Cradle
ISBN: 0141189347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141189345
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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
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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: Deadeye Dick
ISBN: 0008264325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008264321
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Rudy Waltz hasn`t had it easy. After accidentally committing manslaughter at the age of twelve, the traumas life continued to throw at him seemed almost inconsequential.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Bagombo Snuff Box
ISBN: 0099282968 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099282969
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. That young man was Kurt Vonnegut. Bagombo Snuff Box collects Vonnegut`s favourite stories from the postwar years that sharpened his dark, vaudevillian and quietly subversive voice.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Armageddon in Retrospect
ISBN: 0099524082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099524083
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut`s death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity`s tendency towards violence.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Slapstick Or Lonesome No More
ISBN: 009984270X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099842705
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: He is Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain and Slapstick or Lonesome No More! is his story - one of monstrous twins, orgies, revenge, golf, utopian schemes, and very little tooth brushing. In this post-apocalyptic black comedy - dedicated to Laurel and Hardy - Vonnegut is at his most hilarious, grotesque, and personal.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Timequake
ISBN: 0099267543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099267546
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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: Bluebeard
ISBN: 0008264333 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008264338
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: From the author of Slaughterhouse 5.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Hocus Pocus
ISBN: 0099877104 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099877103
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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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: Slaughterhouse 5
ISBN: 0099800209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099800200
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: He is a true artist` New York Times Book ReviewBilly Pilgrim - hapless barber`s assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time.