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Look at the Birdie
Unpublished Short Fiction
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-34371-8 (0-385-34371-X)

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction.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 rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny... Read more >
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A Man Without a Country

Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7736-3 (0-8129-7736-X)

“[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir.”
Los Angeles Times

“Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut’s] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading A Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an... Read more >

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Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday!
A Novel
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33420-4 (0-385-33420-6)

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. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds... Read more >
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Deadeye Dick
A Novel
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33417-4 (0-385-33417-6)

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Mother Night
A Novel
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33414-3 (0-385-33414-1)

Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white... Read more >
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Palm Sunday
An Autobiographical Collage
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: The Dial Press
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33426-6 (0-385-33426-5)

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Slapstick or Lonesome No More!
A Novel
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33423-5 (0-385-33423-0)

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Galapagos
A Novel
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33387-0 (0-385-33387-0)

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Jailbird
A Novel
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33390-0 (0-385-33390-0)

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Player Piano

Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: The Dial Press
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33378-8 (0-385-33378-1)

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Slaughterhouse-Five
A Novel
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33384-9 (0-385-33384-6)

Slaughterhouse-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 as we search for meaning  in what we are afraid to know. Read more >
Also available as an eBook, hardcover and a paperback.

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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons

Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33381-8 (0-385-33381-1)

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Bluebeard
A Novel
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33351-1 (0-385-33351-X)

Broad humor and bitter irony collide in Vonnegut's fictional biography of aging artist Rabo Karabekian—first introduced in Breakfast of Champions—who wants only to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked in his potato barn.

"A joyous, soaring fiction."—Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Read more >
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Cat's Cradle
A Novel
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33348-1 (0-385-33348-X)

One of Vonnegut's most highly praised novels. Filled with humor and unforgettable characters, this apocalyptic story tells of Earth's ultimate end, and presents a vision of the future that is both darkly fantastic and funny, as Vonnegut weaves a satirical commentary on modern man and his madness.
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33347-4 (0-385-33347-1)

In this comic masterpiece, Eliot Rosewater, drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature...with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. The result is Vonnegut's funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the... Read more >
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The Sirens of Titan
A Novel
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33349-8 (0-385-33349-8)

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... Read more >
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Welcome to the Monkey House
Stories
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33350-4 (0-385-33350-1)

This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, Vonnegut demonstrates his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. Read more >
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Or The Children's Crusade, A Duty Dance With Death (25th Anniversary)
Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
On Sale: February 1, 1994
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-31208-0 (0-385-31208-3)

Slaughterhouse-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 as we search for meaning  in what we are afraid to know. Read more >
Also available as an eBook, paperback and a trade paperback.

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Written by Kurt Vonnegut


Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Dell
On Sale: November 3, 1991
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 978-0-440-18029-6 (0-440-18029-5)

A seminal work in literature, Vonnegut's bestselling novel reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. Read more >
Also available as an eBook, hardcover and a trade paperback.
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