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

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

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

Galapagos (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of Slaughterhouse

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

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

Cat's Cradle (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

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

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

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

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

Man without a Country (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse

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

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

A MASTERFUL COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FIVE SHORT STORIES FROM THE INIMITABLE AUTHOR OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5, KURT VONNEGUT'Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer...a zany but moral mad scientist' TimeA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms

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

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'

Sun Moon Star (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

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

Deadeye Dick (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

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. Now fifty-four, an expat living in Haiti, he's reliving the harrowing moments of his life that have left him in his current

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

Deadeye Dick (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors--a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb--Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

With the satirical eye of his science fiction author alter ego Kilgore Trout, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five delivers a classic of modern American literature. Eliot Rosewater, President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation and volunteer firefighter, is tortured by an inheritance he

Sirens Of Titan (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Classic Science fiction from one of the world's most famous authors, soon to be a Tv show from Dan Harmon (Rick &

The Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback)

' Kurt Vonnegut's] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.'--EsquireNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The

Slaughterhouse 5 - The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death (Vonnegut Kurt)(Paperback / softback)

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.'An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times Book Review Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower

Slaughterhouse 5 - 50th Anniversary Edition (Vonnegut Kurt)(Pevná vazba)

50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITIONAs 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