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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it ...Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inve ...Show more
Cat's Cradle - out of print by Kurt Vonnegut
$23.85 AUD
Category: Fiction
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon, and, worse still, surviving it ... Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is th ...Show more
Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Deadeye Dick is Kurt 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 Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search ...Show more
Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s by Kurt Vonnegut
$12.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The human survivors of the "nature cruise of the century", are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains. From the author of "Slaughterhouse 5".
God Bless You Mr Rosewater by Vonnegut, Kurt
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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.
Grand Central Winter : Stories from the Street by Kurt (FRW) Lee; Vonnegut Stringer
$22.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Hocus Pocus or, What's the Hurry, Son? by Kurt Vonnegut
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
After you have read one of Kurt Vonnegut's gleefully pessimistic novels, his words go on colouring your world for a long time afterwards...not to read him would be to miss out on lessons that need to be learned about the age we live in' Sunday Times. 'It is all done with voice. Vonnegut is a master of t ...Show more
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? - The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By by Kurt Vonnegut; Dan Wakefield (Selected by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isn't Nice, What Is? capture a different side of Kurt Vonnegut for the first time in book form. There are nine speeches, seven given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the occasion of ...Show more
If This isn't Nice, What is? Advice for the Young (US HB) by Kurt Vonnegut
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
After the publication of his novel Slaughterhouse-Five (Delacorte, 1959) brought him worldwide acclaim in 1969, Kurt Vonnegut became one of America's most popular graduation speakers. There were years when public speaking was his main source of income and he put a great deal of thought and preparation i ...Show more
If This isn't Nice, What is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: Graduation Speeches and Other Advice to the Young by Kurt Vonnegut
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Best known as one of America's most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. If This Isn't Nice, What Is? collects the speeches and words of wisdom Vonnegut has shared with new graduates over the years. This much-expanded edition no ...Show more
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Pay attention please to the life of Walter F. Starbuck. Nineteen-hundred and Thirteen gave him the gift of life. Nineteenth-hundred and Thirty-one sent him to Harvard. Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-eight got him a job in the federal government. Nineteen-hundred and Seventy gave him a job in the Nixon Whit ...Show more