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Like Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) was a Midwestern everyman steeped in the rhythms of American speech whose anger at the way things are was matched only by his love for the best that we can be. His cunningly relaxed delivery was so original, so finely calibrated, and so profound an... read more
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Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Author)Cat's Cradle is Vonneguts' satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision...
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
or, Pearls Before Swine
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Author)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.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Or, the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Author)Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own...
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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Author)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...
Series & Lists edit
This book is in 2011 Locus Recommended Reading List: Collections. (authoritative list)
This is book 216 of 36 in Library of America. (edition-based publisher list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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