VONNEGUT KURT

(P/B) GALAPAGOS
The human survivors of the "nature cruise of the century", are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains....
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(P/B) LIKE SHAKING HANDS WITH GOD
Like Shaking Hands with God details a collaborative journey on the art of writing undertaken by two distinguished writers separated by age, race, upbringing, and education, but sharing common goals and aspirations. Rarely have two writers spoken so candidly about the intersection where the lives they live meet the art they practice. That these two writers happen to be Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer makes this a historic and joyous occasion. The setting was a bookstore in New York City, the date Thursday, October 1, 1998. Before a crowd of ...
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(P/B) HOCUS POCUS
"After you have read one of Kurt Vonnegut's gleefully pessimistic novels, his words go on colouring your world for a long time afterwards... not to read him would be to miss out on lessons that need to be learned about the age we live in" SUNDAY TIMES "It is all done with voice. Vonnegut is a master of the first-person, manic-depressive stand-up" OBSERVER "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 ...
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ΣΦΑΓΕΙΟ ΝΟΥΜΕΡΟ ΠΕΝΤΕ
ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΩ, ΜΕΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΠΟΛΕΜΟ ΔΙΑΤΗΡΕΙΤΕ ΤΟΝ ΚΟΣΜΟ ΚΑΘΑΡΟ, ΟΠΩΣ ΤΟΝ ΒΡΗΚΑΤΕ! Η σουρεαλιστική εκδοχή μιας αληθινής ιστορίας από τον πόλεμο περιλαμβάνει: - Ένα βετεράνο, τον Μπιλ Πίλγκριμ, που ταξιδεύει μέσα στο χρόνο και πέφτει θύμα απαγωγής από εξωγήινους το 1967. - Μια αλεξίσφαιρη Βίβλο δίπλα σ' ένα φυλλάδιο με τίτλο "Μάθε τον εχθρό σου". - Ενθουσιώδεις νεοσύλλεκτους, συνειδητοποιημένους λιποτάκτες, γενναίους ανιχνευτές, ενέδρες της συμφοράς και θυελλώδεις εναγκαλισμούς πυρών. - Την υποχρεωτική ξενάγηση-φιλόξενη διαμονή αιχμαλώτων πολέμου...
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LOOK AT THE BIRDIE
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 into a magical invention.In 'Ed Luby's Key Club,' 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. In 'Look at the Birdie,' a quack psychiatrist...
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(H/B) COMPLETE STORIES
Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the twentieth century's foremost imaginative geniuses. More thanhalf 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 versus Fame and Fortune", "Behavior,"The Band Director" (those stories featuring Lincoln Highs band director and nice guy George Helmholtz), and "Futuristic" - these ninety-eight stories were written from 1941 to 2007, a...
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(P/B) ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT
The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity’s tendency toward violence. First published on the 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 humour, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during World War II - a piece...
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(H/B) IF THIS ISN'T NICE, WHAT IS?
Best known as one of America's most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. Vonnegut never graduated from college, so his words to any class of graduating seniors always carried the delight, and gentle irony, of someone savoring an achievement he himself had not had occasion to savor on his own behalf. "But about my Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now," Vonnegut, an avowed Humanist, would say sometimes in a graduation speech, "one of the things he found objectionable ...
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(P/B) THE LAST INTERVIEW
One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of interviews, including his last published interview. During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut - which collects interviews from throughout his career - we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end. (From the publisher) FROM VONNEGUT'S LAST INTERVIEW: Is there another boo...
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(P/B) WHILE MORTALS SLEEP
A collection of sixteen previously unpublished stories by the twentieth century master. In While Mortals Sleep men and machines, art and artifice, fortune and fame become curiously twisted. A travelling salesman falls in love a robot, Jenny, a refrigerator with personality. A man plays with his model trains too much until the women in his life decide to take matters into their own hands.A young typist receives a plea for help on her Dictaphone - it is from an escaped, dying murderer hiding somewhere in the works of her company's factory. I...
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(H/B) SUN MOON STAR
Sun Moon Star is the story of the birth of Jesus - as told by Kurt Vonnegut. This children's book takes the newborn Jesus' perspective, offering beautiful and insightful descriptions of the world from someone newly born into it. In this book, we follow Jesus and meet the people most important to his life - presented in new and surprising ways. A powerful departure from Vonnegut's more adult work, Sun Moon Star gives readers a rare glimpse of the writer's talent in a format that's unique and unexpected. (From the book jacket)...
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(P/B) WE ARE WHAT WE PRETEND TO BE
Called "our finest black-humorist" 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 ...
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(P/B) GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIAN
From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Kurt Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, conducting interviews: with Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction work...
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(P/B) LETTERS
Sixty years of Vonnegut's life seen through his brilliant, entertaining letters. 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. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life'. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and ...
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(P/B) KURT VONNEGUT ON MARK TWAIN, LINCOLN, IMPERIALIST WARS AND THE WEATHER
"First things first: I want it clearly understood that this mustache I'm wearing is my father's mustache. I should have brought his photograph. My big brother Bernie, now dead, a physical chemist who discovered that silver iodide can sometimes make it snow or rain, he wore it, too. Speaking of weather: Mark Twain said some readers complained that there wasn't enough weather in his stories. So he wrote some weather, which they could insert wherever they thought it would help some. Mark Twain was said to have shed a tear of gratitude and inc...
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(P/B) BAGOMBO SNUFF BOX
Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at General Electric sold his first short story to one of the doomed publications. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit GE and join the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Faulkner, and try to make a living at $1500. With four major magazines running five stories each week and smaller ones scouting as well, it was a seller's market, and Vonnegut was published regularly by The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Argosy and others. For this un...
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(H/B) KURT VONNEGUT DRAWINGS
Those who know Kurt Vonnegut as one of America's most beloved and influential writers will be surprised and delighted to discover that he was also a gifted graphic artist. This book brings together the finest examples of his funny, strange, and moving drawings in an inexpensive, beautifully produced gift volume for every Vonnegut fan. Kurt Vonnegut's daughter Nanette introduces this volume of his never before published drawings with an intimate remembrance of her father. Vonnegut always drew, and many of his novels contain sketches. Breakf...
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Η ΦΩΛΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΓΑΤΑΣ
Τίποτα σε αυτό το βιβλίο δεν είναι αλήθεια. - Ένας διάσημος επιστήμονας, από τους δημιουργούς της ατομικής βόμβας, σπέρνει και μετά θάνατον την καταστροφή: ο πάγος-εννέα, το τελευταίο "δώρο" που άφησε στην ανθρωπότητα, απειλεί να αφανίσει τον κόσμο. - Ένας γκουρού από τις Ινδίες ιδρύει μια θρησκεία που βασίζεται απροκάλυπτα σε ψέματα. Οι πιστοί ευτυχούν σύμφωνα με τα φόμα, τις ευτυχείς ανακρίβειες της ζωής τους. - Μια πανέμορφη γυναίκα εξασκεί το μποκο-μάρου, το ερωτικό μασάζ πελμάτων, και μαγεύει τον αφηγητή προσηλυτίζοντάς τον στην παράλ...
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(P/B) GOD BLESS YOU DR. KEVORKIAN

(H/B) ARMAGEDDON IN RETROSPECT
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 during World War II - a piece that is as timely today as it was then - to a painfully funny short story about three privates and their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, more poignant story about the ...
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