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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
Dr Felix Hoenikker - a father of the atomic bomb - has another creation. Far more dangerous than that which levelled Hiroshima- ice-nine, a chemical that could freeze the world's oceans solid. The search for Hoenikker leads first to his three children, each in possession of the chemical, and then to the ...Show more
Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s by Kurt Vonnegut
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This is the second volume of Vonnegut's autobiographical writings - a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of the planet and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Honest, dark, rambling, funny; this rare glimpse of Vonnegut's so ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut - Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt b ...Show more
Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
$39.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, "Practicing an art form is a way to grow your soul." He would screw up his lips into a prune face after he said this because of how important he believed this idea to be. Pity the Reader is the very embodiment of that idea, a book about writing and life and why the two ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (50th Anniversary Edition) by Kurt Vonnegut
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: VINTAGE CLASSICS
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
$24.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Reading Level: good
Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Featured title on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018 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 ther ...Show more
Welcome to the Monkey House - Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A masterful collection of twenty-five short stories from the inimitable Kurt VonnegutA diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms from sex in the title story of Welcome to the Monkey House, which gathers together twenty-five of Kurt Vonnegut's short stories from the 1950s and 1960s. Sh ...Show more
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