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Armageddon in Retrospectby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0099524082 (0-09-952408-2)
Hardcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Armageddon in Retrospect'Book summary:The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death--a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace, and humanity's tendency toward violence.
Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace.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 during World War II--an essay that is as timely today as it was then--to a painfully funny short story about three Army privates and their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, more poignant story about the impossibility of shielding our children from the temptations of violence. Also included are Vonnegut's last speech as well as an assortment of his artwork, and an introduction by the author's son, Mark Vonnegut. Armageddon in Retrospect says as much about the times in which we live as it does about the genius of the writer. Read an Unreleased Kurt Vonnegut Story, "Guns Before Butter"
"Guns Before Butter," Kurt Vonnegut's story of hungry GIs held as prisoner of war in World War II in Dresden (a site of Vonnegut's best-known novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, and his own wartime imprisonment), was unpublished until its inclusion in Armageddon in Retrospect. Read the complete story here.
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Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fictionby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0099287692 (0-09-928769-2)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction'Book summary:From out of the blue, here's a new collection of Vonnegut fiction--his first magazine stories from the 1950s in book form at last, with some charming reminiscences (and three new endings for old stories) by the author. Vonnegut says these tales were meant to be as evanescent as lightening bugs, and that image captures their frail magic. They're like time travelers from an epoch when stories swarmed in mass-market magazines, before TV dawned and doomed them.
Later greatness glimmers here: the offbeat sci-fi of "Thanasphere" (in which an astronaut encounters dead souls in space) and the hero's bogus adventures in alien lands in "Bagombo Snuff Box" look forward to Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, as do the war stories "Souvenir," "Der Arme Dolmetscher," and "The Cruise of The Jolly Roger," which incorporate and amplify Vonnegut's actual war experiences. There's authentic midcentury news here, even in the gentle Saturday Evening Post social satire of "The No-Talent Kid," "Ambitious Sophomore," and "The Boy Who Hated Girls," which pretty much nail the high-school marching band experience. The pieces are peppered with odd, true observations and neat little turns of phrase: one incompetent kid in Lincoln High's band marches "flappingly, like a mother flamingo pretending to be injured, luring alligators from her nest."
You can't miss the ironic humor and the humane, death-haunted melancholy of the young war veteran and tyro writer. This collection beats his first novel, Player Piano, and anticipates the masterpiece Cat's Cradle, whose tiny chapters resemble short stories. Young Vonnegut is derivative, mostly of Saki and O. Henry, partly because he couldn't think of endings, and their switcheroos offered a handy model. But from the start, Vonnegut's idiosyncratic voice is unmistakable. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Breakfast of Championsby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224008889 (0-224-00888-9)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Breakfast of Champions'Book summary:"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both sets of ideas bounce through this challenging and funny book. As with the rest of Vonnegut's pure fantasy, it lacks the shimmering, fact-fueled rage that illuminates Slaughterhouse-Five. At the same time, that makes this book perhaps more enjoyable to read.
Breakfast of Champions is a slippery, lucid, bleakly humorous jaunt through (sick? inhumane?) America circa 1973, with Vonnegut acting as our Virgil-like companion. The book follows its main character, auto-dealing solid-citizen Dwayne Hoover, down into madness, a condition brought on by the work of the aforementioned Kilgore Trout. As Dwayne cracks, then crumbles, Breakfast of Champions coolly shows the effects his dementia has on the web of characters surrounding him. It's not much of a plot, but it's enough for Vonnegut to air unique opinions on America, sex, war, love, and all of his other pet topics--you know, the only ones that really count. [via]
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Cat's Cradleby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0140285601 (0-14-028560-1)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Cradle'Book summary: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 in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature. At one time, this novel could probably be found on the bookshelf of every college kid in America; it's still a fabulous read and a great place to start if you're young enough to have missed the first Vonnegut craze. [via]
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- Cat's Cradle: ISBN 0141189347 (0-14-118934-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Cat's Cradle: ISBN 0141009276 (0-14-100927-6)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Cat's Cradle: ISBN 0030672252 (0-03-067225-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - Cat's Cradle: ISBN 0140285601 (0-14-028560-1)
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- Cat's Cradle: ISBN 0141189347 (0-14-118934-7)
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Courtby Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Kurt VonnegutISBN 0195101413 (0-19-510141-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'Book summary:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is one of Twain's best-loved tales. A pioneering work of science fiction, it vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary as well. In this complex and ambitious tour de force, an inventive nineteenth-century resident of Hartford named Hank Morgan travels back in time to sixteenth-century England where he tries to introduce modern technology and political ideas. Along the way he founds the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, organizes a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, and "keeps up a steady fire of flippancies, so frequent that no reader registers all of them on the first go-around," as Louis Budd reminds us in his introduction. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain's most complex and disturbing meditation on technology, as well as a powerful consideration of politics and power. The original illustrations by Dan Beard, chosen by Twain himself to illustrate the book, brilliantly mix buffoonery with sharp social satire in an effective counterpoint to the text. By turns side-splittingly funny and somberly thought-provoking, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain at his finest. [via]
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Kurt VonnegutISBN 0195114108 (0-19-511410-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889'Book summary:One of Twain's best-loved stories next to his classic tales of Huck and Tom, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court vibrates with slapstick comedy and serious social commentary. While Hank Morgan, Twain's time-displaced Yankee traveler, keeps up a steady stream of flippancies, founding the first tabloid, the Camelot Weekly Hosannah and Literary Volcano, and organizing a game of baseball between armor-clad knights, he also keeps up a steady commentary on the social mores of King Arthur's court, criticizing the hereditary social classes and state church still strong in the Victorian England of Twain's own day, and championing women's suffrage and union labor organization. Widely regarded as one of the first science fiction novels, this edition also features an introduction by Kurt Vonnegut, our own twentieth century master of satiric social commentary and science fiction. It also features the original illustrations by Dan Beard, chosen by Twain himself to illustrate the book, whose drawings brilliantly mix buffoonery with sharp social satire: sharp-eyed readers, for instance, will spot that the model for Merlin, Hank's nemesis, is none other than Tennyson, whose Idylls of the King made the romantic vision of King Arthur's court nearly a sacred Victorian cult. By turns side-splittingly funny and somberly thought-provoking, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is Twain at his finest. [via]
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Fates Worse Than Death : An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980'sby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0099998904 (0-09-999890-4)
Softcover, Random House
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewaterby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0030475406 (0-03-047540-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater'Book summary:published in 1965. The plot focuses on Eliot Rosewater, the primary trustee of the philanthropic Rosewater Foundation, whom one of the family lawyers, Norman Mushari, is attempting to have declared insane, in order for a distant relative, Fred Rosewater, an insurance salesman from Rhode Island, to gain control. [via]
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Happy Birthday, Wanda Juneby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224007513 (0-224-00751-3)
Hardcover, Random House
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Hocus Pocusby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0099878909 (0-09-987890-9)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Ides of Marchby Thornton Wilder, Kurt VonnegutISBN 0060088907 (0-06-008890-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Jailbirdby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224017721 (0-224-01772-1)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and Meby Ralph Steadman, Kurt VonnegutISBN 0156032503 (0-15-603250-3)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and Me'Book summary:In the spring of 1970, artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for when he met Hunter S. Thompson at the Kentucky Derby. Their remarkable collaboration resulted in the now-legendary Gonzo Journalism, which would document the civil rights movement, the Nixon administration, Watergate, and the many bizarre and great events that shaped the second half of the twentieth century. When Thompson committed suicide in 2005, it was the end of a unique friendship filled with both betrayal and understanding. A rollicking, no-holds-barred memoir, The Jokes Over is the definitive inside story of the Gonzo years.[via]More editions of The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and Me:
Kurt Vonnegut 28 copy Mixed Dumpbin Containing:by Kurt VonnegutISBN 0099995905 (0-09-999590-5)
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Mother Nightby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0099819309 (0-09-981930-9)
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Rigadoonby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0140040838 (0-14-004083-8)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rigadoon'Book summary:Completed right before his death in 1961, Rigadoon, the most compassionate of Céline's novels, explores the ravages of war and its aftermath.
Often comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat in tow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark after finding himself on the losing side of World War II. The train rides that encompass the novel are filled with madness and mercy, as Céline, a physician, aids refugees while ignoring his own medical needs.Céline's inventive style and black humor profoundly influenced many writers who came after him, including Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. As Kurt Vonnegut states in his introduction to this edition, "[Céline] demonstrated that perhaps half of all experience, the animal half, had been concealed by good manners. No honest writer or speaker will ever want to be polite again."
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Slapstickby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0224013424 (0-224-01342-4)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Slaughterhouse-Fiveby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0099496720 (0-09-949672-0)
Hardcover, Random House
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Sun Moon Starby Kurt Vonnegut , Ivan ChermayeffISBN 0091424003 (0-09-142400-3)
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Timequakeby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0099277190 (0-09-927719-0)
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Timequake Header Expby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0099277239 (0-09-927723-9)
Hardcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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Timequake Mobile Expby Kurt VonnegutISBN 0099273632 (0-09-927363-2)
Hardcover, Hodder General Publishing Division
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions)by Kurt VonnegutISBN 022401076X (0-224-01076-X)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions)'Book summary:The bestselling author of Hocus Pocus offers a rare glimpse into his magic world, as he presents this indignant, outrageous, always witty, and deeply-felt collection of his reviews, essays, and speeches. "Vonnegut at his unnerving best."--Providence Bulletin. Reissue. [via]
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