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Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut  
Powells.com Staff Pick After Slaughterhouse Five came out in 1969, Kurt Vonnegut entered a long period of depression and swore he would never write another novel. Fortunately he was lying, and in 1973, out came Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (the subtitle...
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments Slaughterhouse-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...
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The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraived 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, there's...
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Cat's Cradle (Large Format) (63 Edition)
by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes....
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Galapagos
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments “Beautiful…provocative, arresting reading.”–USA Today KURT VONNEGUT is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The...
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God Bless You, DR. Kevorkian (99 Edition)
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments In what began as a series of quirkily characteristic ninety-second interludes for New York's public radio station, Kurt Vonnegut asks, on behalf of us all, the Big Questions. Could death be a quality? A place? Not an ending but an occurrence that changes...
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Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as a “true artist”* with...
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Timequake
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments On February 13th, 2001, according to Vonnegut, the universe will tire momentarily of expanding forever. What's the point? Maybe it would be more fun to shrink for a change, and have a reunion of all the stuff back where it began. Then it could make a...
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A Man without a Country
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir.” –Los Angeles Times “Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut’s] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . ....
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Bluebeard
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Broad humor and bitter irony collide in Vonnegut's fictional biography of aging artist Rabo Karabekian — first introduced in Breakfast of Champions — who wants only to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked in his...
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Deadeye Dick
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors — a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb — Rudy...
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Player Piano
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. Paul's rebellion is vintage Vonnegut — wildly funny, deadly serious, and...
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Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments Never-before-collected, vintage Vonnegut. Vonnegut said that his last book, Timequake (1997), would be his last, but no one as imaginative and in love with language and story can resist the lure of the page, and it's obvious that he had a grand time...
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
by Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher Comments 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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Welcome to the Monkey House
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision....
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Jailbird
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government...and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentary as...
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Hocus Pocus
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Hocus Pocus is the fictional autobiography of a West Point graduate who was in charge of the humiliating evacuation of U.S. personnel from the Saigon rooftops at the close of the Vietnam War. Returning home from the war, he unknowingly fathered an...
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Slapstick: Or Lonesome No More!
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today's follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know...
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Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments In this revealing collection of essays, Vonnegut examines the issues and events (both personal and social) that shaped the last decade. Ranging from an intimate portrait of his family to a biting commentary of ex-son-in-law Geraldo Rivera to the 1945...
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Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
by Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Comments Palm Sunday is a self-portrait by an American genius. Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too human journey through...
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