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Photo © 1994 Rosemary Carroll
author spotlight
Kurt Vonnegut was 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 him, in the words of The New York Times, as “a true artist” with the publication of Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
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Look at the Birdie
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.00
Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction.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 >
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $27.00
Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction.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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Slaughterhouse-Five
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 3, 1991
Price: $7.99
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 as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. Read more >
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 3, 1991
Price: $7.99
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 as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. Read more >
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $15.00
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing 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 fear most. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $15.00
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing 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 fear most. Read more >
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Cat's Cradle
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday!
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Sirens of Titan
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved 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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved 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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Mother Night
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
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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Galapagos
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $15.00
Galápagos 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 Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $15.00
Galápagos 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 Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this... Read more >
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eBook.
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Welcome to the Monkey House
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Player Piano
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $15.00
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 machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut–wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $15.00
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 machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut–wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
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. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
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. Read more >
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eBook.
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Slapstick or Lonesome No More!
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today’s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce (a final slapstick that... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today’s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce (a final slapstick that... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Bluebeard
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: September 8, 1998
Price: $15.00
An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves. Read more >
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eBook.
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A Man Without a Country
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $13.95
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“[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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $13.95
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“[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... Read more >
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Deadeye Dick
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
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 annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb–Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
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 annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb–Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution... Read more >
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eBook.
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Jailbird
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $14.00
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 from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentary as Watergate's least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $14.00
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 from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentary as Watergate's least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when... Read more >
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $14.00
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 the writing of others. An indignant, outrageous, always witty, and deeply felt collection of reviews, essays, and speeches, this work is... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 12, 1999
Price: $14.00
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 the writing of others. An indignant, outrageous, always witty, and deeply felt collection of reviews, essays, and speeches, this work is... Read more >
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Palm Sunday
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
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 various cockamamie aspects of his all-too human journey through life. It is a work that resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice: the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 11, 1999
Price: $15.00
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 various cockamamie aspects of his all-too human journey through life. It is a work that resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice: the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1994
Price: $25.00
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: February 1, 1994
Price: $25.00
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 >
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
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.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
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The Sirens of Titan
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved 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 >
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved 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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trade paperback.
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Welcome to the Monkey House
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $15.00
This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Bluebeard
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $15.00
An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 14, 2009
Price: $15.00
An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday!
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $6.99
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 >
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 23, 2009
Price: $6.99
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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trade paperback.
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Cat's Cradle
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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