“kurt vonnegut”

According to Vonnegut`s alter ego, science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 february 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to back up a decade to 1991, making eve... More

Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at General Electric sold his first short story to one of the doomed publications. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit GE and join the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Faulkner, and try to make ... More

From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr -- an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy -- not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror... More

Wilbur Sain and his twin sister, Eliza, are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that teir wealthy parents are forced to send them to live on a nearby asteroid. But behind their façade of idiocy, the monstrous pair possess a joint intelligence that could outstrip the most advanc... More

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.... More

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.... More

GOD BLESS YOU, MR ROSEWATER is a novel about people -- their pleasures, pains and perversions -- and money. It is a penetrating satire on insanity -- a millionaire's private lunacy, the inherited obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness that grips a whole nation.... More

It is the year 2001, and Eugene Dabbs Hartke, suffering from TB, is recording his disastrous life on scraps of paper while awaiting trial for a crime he hasn't committed. This humorous novel is set in a Japanese-owned America, where everything is run for profit. By the author of 'Slaughterhouse 5'.... More

To be published on the first anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, "Armageddon in Retrospect" is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden... More