Armageddon in Retrospect (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Armageddon in Retrospect (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

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

Bluebeard (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of Slaughterhouse 5. In Rabo Karabekian's fictional autobiography, Vonnegut creates an impeccably funny satirical piece, through the reflections of a seventy-one-year-old man. Review ‘Vonnegut is at his edifying best.' The Philadelphia Inquirer ‘The quicksilver mind of

Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Galapagos (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of Slaughterhouse

Hocus Pocus (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

'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

Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

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

Jailbird (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Using the laid-back, ironic voice that has become his stademark, Vonnegut combines fiction and fact to construct an ingenious, wry morality play' - NewsweekVonnegut's riotous urban fairytale about the various fiascos of the Nixon years - a firm fan favouriteWalter

Timequake (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

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

While Mortals Sleep (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

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

Mother Night (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

'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'

Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

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

Look At the Birdie (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

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

Palm Sunday (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

FROM THE ONE-OF-A-KIND IMAGINATION THAT BROUGHT US SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 AND CAT'S CRADLE'Kurt Vonnegut is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer' Los Angeles Times Book ReviewAn 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut

Welcome to the Monkey House (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative

Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution

Welcome to the Monkey House (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

Since its original publication in 1968, Welcome to the Monkey House has been one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved works. This special edition celebrates a true master of the short-story form by including multiple variant drafts of what would eventually be the title story. In a fascinating

Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.'Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the

Galapagos (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

'A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.'--The New York Times Book Review Gal pagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors

Kriminálník - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kriminálník je ideální knihou pro čtenáře, kteří s Kurtem Vonnegutem ještě nemají žádnou zkušenost, ale chtějí s ním začít. Tento román totiž neodkazuje k jiným autorovým dílům, jako řada z těch ostatních, ale soustředí se přísně na vyprávění hlavního hrdiny

Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

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

Bagombo Snuff Box - Uncollected Short Fiction (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

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

No není to krása? - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut nebyl jen přední americký prozaik, ale též vyhledávaný a oblíbený veřejný řečník. Výbor z jeho projevů nyní vychází pod názvem No není to krása? Najdeme zde devět autorových proslovů; jeden z nich byl pronesen u příležitosti přebírání prestižní ceny

Vyletí ptáček - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut opět vstává z hrobu a také v druhé posmrtně vydané sbírce Vyletí ptáček v doposud nevydaných povídkách ohromuje srdečným humorem, kuriózními nápady, výstředními postavami a naprosto nečekanými pointami. Nechcete si koupit naslouchátko, které vám mohutně

Když smrtelníci spí - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Třetí posmrtně vydaná sbírka Kurta Vonneguta nám předkládá další originální povídky z počátku autorovy kariéry. S působivou jasnozřivostí v nich autor pitvá soudobou honbu za penězi, láskou a věhlasem, která svérázně formuje osudy jeho postav. Brilantní technik George