by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 1999

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives...Read More

Publication Date: Nov 1991

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

 Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen short stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction. This series of perfectly rendered vignettes, never before published...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2010

by Kurt Vonnegut

Pay attention please to the life of Walter F. Starbuck. Nineteen-hundred and Thirteen gave him the gift of life. Nineteenth-hundred and Thirty-one sent him to Harvard. Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-eight got...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 1980

by Kurt Vonnegut

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Publication Date: Aug 1999

by Kurt Vonnegut

Galapagos 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 stranded on the Galapago...Read More

Publication Date: Jul 1997

by Thornton Wilder

Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 2003

by Loree Rackstraw

A loving, intimate memoir from a lifelong friend of Kurt Vonnegut, including photos and never-before-published correspondence When Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ducked into his classroom at the Iowa Writer's Workshop in...Read More

Publication Date: Mar 2009

by John Bartlett

For 150 years people have looked to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations for wisdom, inspiration, and pure fun. Here now is an elegant new collection of the best advice ever given, inspiring...Read More

Publication Date: May 2006

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

A rich man attempts a noble experiment with human nature. The result is an etched-in-acid portrayal of universal greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh.

Publication Date: Sep 1998

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 1998

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

After crashing his spaceship, Winston Niles Rumfoord is transformed into a "wave phenomenon,' a telepathic being who travels in an orbit from the sun to the constellation Betelgeuse, landing on...Read More

Publication Date: Sep 1998

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision.

Publication Date: Sep 1998

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.

Publication Date: Sep 1998

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Vonnegut’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...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 1999

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 1999

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

In this post-apocalyptic novel, a group of tourists is stranded on the Galapagos Islands, where they become the progenitors of a new race of humans with small brains, flippers for...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 1999

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government...and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck...Read More

Publication Date: Jan 1999

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established...Read More

Publication Date: May 1999

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Deadeye Dick is 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...Read More

Publication Date: May 1999

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth....Read More

Publication Date: May 1999

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Flying to a favorite uncle's funeral, a middle-aged Kurt Vonnegut daydreams of one-hundred-year-old Wilbur Oriole-11 Swain, pediatrician and past United States President, who wrote history's most popular child-rearing ma...Read More

Publication Date: May 1999

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Palm Sunday is a self-portrait by an American genius. Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and...Read More

Publication Date: May 1999

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly...Read More

Publication Date: Oct 2009

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his deathaa fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 2008

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

The author's first full-length novel in seven years, a hilarious moral satire features a science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout, who manages to turn time back a decade, insisting that everyone...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 1998

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

Never-before-collected, vintage Vonnegut.'Vonnegut said that his last book, Timequake (1997), would be his last, but no one as imaginative and in love with language and story can resist the lure...Read More

Publication Date: Aug 2000

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

The New York Times bestsellerG''a "gripping" posthumous collection of previously unpublished work by Kurt Vonnegut on the subject of war. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly...Read More

Publication Date: Apr 2009

by Lee Stringer

In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer -- homeless and drug-addicted over the course of eleven years -- found a pencil to run through his crack pipe....Read More

Publication Date: Nov 1999

by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

In this elegantly produced, extended conversation celebrating the writing craft, Kurt Vonnegut and acclaimed 'Grand Central Winter' author Lee Stringer explore what it means to be a writer -- and...Read More

Publication Date: Dec 2000