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Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
This collection includes the letter the twenty-two-year old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from the German POW camp; wry dispatches from Vonnegut's years as a struggling writer; a letter to the CEO of Eagle Shirtmakers with a crackpot scheme to manufacture "atomic" bow ties; angry lett ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Kurt Vonnegut
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
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. Kurt Vonn ...Show more
Love, Kurt - The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 by Kurt Vonnegut; Edith Vonnegut (Editor)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
A never-before-seen collection of deeply intimate love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter and reproduced in gorgeous full color."If ever I do write anything of length--good or bad--it will be written with you in mind."Kurt Vonnegut's oldest daughter ...Show more
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr - an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy - not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror of it ...Show more
Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Etymology
Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, "Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul." He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Reader is the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why the two ...Show more
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The debut novel of Kurt VonnegutVonnegut'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.
Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
"The Sirens of Titan" is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraived man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course, there's a catch to the invitation...and a prophetic visi ...Show more
Slapstick or Lonesome No More - Vintage Future by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Manhattan has become the Island of Death. The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a cooking fire in the lobby of the Empire State Building. He is Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain and Slapstick or Lonesome No More! is his story - one of monstrous twins, orgies, reveng ...Show more
Slaughterhouse 5 (Vintage Past) by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Seco ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (50th Anniversary Edition) by Kurt Vonnegut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: VINTAGE CLASSICS
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
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.
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in th ...Show more