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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut, Ryan North; Illustrated by Albert Monteys
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The first-ever, critically acclaimed graphic novel adaptation of
Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five now available in softcover!
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.
Billy Pilgrim’s journey is at once a farcical look at the horror
and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and
die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be
fallibly human. An American classic and one of the world’s
seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is
faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from
Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A
Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler) and Eisner
Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!).
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.
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 in America and reminds us
how to see the truth.
From the author of Slaughterhouse 5. The human survivors of the
nature cruise of the century, are quietly evolving into sleek,
furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of
humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big
brains.
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.
From the Paperback edition.
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Bluebeard (Paperback)
Kurt Vonnegut
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R278
R227
Discovery Miles 2 270
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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.
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.
An anti-war novel in which Billy Pilgrim, prisoner of war, optometrist and time-traveller is the hero. This is a story of innocence faced with apocalypse.
From the author of Timequake, this "irresistible" novel (Cleveland Plain Dealer) tells the story of Eugene Debs Hartke-Vietnam veteran, jazz pianist, college professor, and prognosticator of the apocalypse. It's "Vonnegut's best novel in years-funny and prophetic...something special." (The Nation)
Called"our finest black-humourist" by The Atlantic Monthly , Kurt
Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th
century. Now his first and last works come together for the first
time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous
phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be . Written to be sold under the
pseudonym of"Mark Harvey," Basic Training was never published in
Vonnegut's lifetime. It appears to have been written in the late
1940s and is therefore Vonnegut's first ever novella. It is a
bitter, profoundly disenchanted story that satirizes the military,
authoritarianism, gender relationships, parenthood and most of the
assumed mid-century myths of the family. Haley Brandon, the
adolescent protagonist, comes to the farm of his relative, the old
crazy who insists upon being called The General, to learn to be a
straight-shooting American. Haley's only means of survival will
lead him to unflagging defiance of the General's deranged (but oh
so American, oh so military) values. This story and its thirtyish
author were no friends of the milieu to which the slick magazines'
advertisers were pitching their products. When Vonnegut passed away
in 2007, he left his last novel unfinished. Entitled If God Were
Alive Today , this last work is a brutal satire on societal
ignorance and carefree denial of the world's major problems.
Protagonist Gil Berman is a middle-aged college lecturer and
self-declared stand-up comedian who enjoys cracking jokes in front
of a college audience while societal dependence on fossil fuels has
led to the apocalypse. Described by Vonnegut as,"the stand-up
comedian on Doomsday," Gil is a character formed from Vonnegut's
own rich experiences living in a reality Vonnegut himself
considered inevitable. p class="MsoNormal"Along with the two works
of fiction, Vonnegut's daughter, Nanette shares reminiscences about
her father and commentary on these two works- both exclusive to
this edition. In this fiction collection, published in print for
the first time, exist Vonnegut's grand themes: trust no one, trust
nothing and the only constants are absurdity and resignation, which
themselves cannot protect us from the void but might divert.
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
Galapagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave,
new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel,
America's master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that
is sadly, madly awry-and all that is worth saving.
The richest and most depraved man on Earth takes a wild space journey to distant worlds, learning about the purpose of human life along the way.
In story theatre style this play tells of the fateful meeting
between Dwayne Hoover, Pontiac dealer, and Kilgore Trout,
Vonnegut's alter ego, in Midland City, where Dwayne bites off
Trout's finger.
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Timequake (Paperback)
Kurt Vonnegut
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R495
R413
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There's been a timequake. And everyone--even you--must live the decade between February 17, 1991 and February 17, 2001 over again. The trick is that we all have to do exactly the same things as we did the first time--minute by minute, hour by hour, year by year, betting on the wrong horse again, marrying the wrong person again. Why? You'll have to ask the old science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout. This was all his idea.
An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.
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 disillusioned state. But
perhaps his ancestors, among them a father who was an unwitting
patron of Adolf Hitler, have predestined him for the mad life he's
lead. Â In Deadeye Dick Vonnegut expertly probes the ties
between generations, and questions the conventional notions of
morality.  ‘Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr Caligari and
Flash Gordon compounded into one writer … a zany but moral mad
scientist’ Time ‘The master at his quirky, provocative best’
Cosmopolitan
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest
in science fiction When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship
into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure
energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or
some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode
Island, once every fifty-nine days and then only for an hour. But
at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever
happened and everything that ever will be. He knows, for instance,
that his wife is going to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant, the
richest man in the world. He also knows that on Titan - one of
Saturn's moons - is an alien from the planet Tralfamadore, who has
been waiting 200,000 years for a spare part for his grounded
spacecraft . . . A finalist for the 1960 Hugo Award, The Sirens of
Titan was Vonnegut's second novel. It received wide acclaim, and
played with ideas of free will and predestination, themes he
continued to explore in his later works. In 2015, he was inducted
into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. - 'The Sirens of Titan is
marvellous. It's so funny it made me want to cry' - Infinity Plus
'A classic, ripe with wit and eloquence and a cascade of
inventiveness' - Brian Aldiss 'His best book . . . He dares not
only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to
answer it' - Esquire
This is vintage Vonnegut - hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he
fixes his gaze on art, politics, himself and the condition of the
soul of America today. Written over the last five years in the form
of a loose memoir, "A Man without a Country" is an intimate and
tender communication to us all, sometimes despairing, always
searching and ultimately wise and compassionate.
The New York Times bestseller from the author of
Slaughterhouse-Five-a "gripping" posthumous collection of Kurt
Vonnegut's previously unpublished work on the subject of war and
peace. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly
humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve
previously unpublished writings. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark
rueful humor and outraged moral sense, the pieces range from a
letter written by Vonnegut to his family in 1945, informing them
that he'd been taken prisoner by the Germans, to his last speech,
delivered after his death by his son Mark, who provides a warmly
personal introduction to the collection. Taken together, these
pieces provide fresh insight into Vonnegut's enduring literary
genius and reinforce his ongoing moral relevance in today's world.
Includes an Introduction by Mark Vonnegut
One of America's greatest writers gives us his unique perspective
on our fears of nuclear annihilation Experiment. Told with deadpan
humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global
destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon
and, worse still, surviving it. Solution. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one
of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly
legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal
chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its
whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a
crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's
death-wish comes true when his last, fatal, gift to mankind brings
about an end that, for all of us, is nigh.
One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.
Covers diverse subjects as death in the family, suicidal
depression, the future of the planet, Ronald Reagan, Salman Rushdie
and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision.
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