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Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 Watergate's least known co-conspirator. But the hum ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: Complete Stories by Dave (FRW) Dan (EDT); Eggers Jerome (EDT); Wakefield Kurt; Klinkowitz Vonnegut
$75.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the 20th century's greatest writers. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically--War, Women, Science, Romance, Work Ethic v. Fam ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut - Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This extraordinary collection of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction. Written over a sixty-year period, these letters, the vast majority of them never before published, are funny, moving, and full of the same uncanny wisdom that has endeared his work to readers world ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This collection includes the letter the twenty-two-year old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from the German POW camp; wry dispatches from Vonnegut's years as a struggling writer; a letter to the CEO of Eagle Shirtmakers with a crackpot scheme to manufacture "atomic" bow ties; angry lett ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Kurt Vonnegut
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
During his long career, Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut - which collects interviews from throughout his career - we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end. Kurt Vonn ...Show more
Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing by Kurt Vonnegut & Lee Stringer
$25.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Look at the Birdie" evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. In "Confido", a family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets int ...Show more
Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
$38.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny port ...Show more
Love, Kurt - The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 by Kurt Vonnegut; Edith Vonnegut (Editor)
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A never-before-seen collection of deeply intimate love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter and reproduced in gorgeous full color."If ever I do write anything of length--good or bad--it will be written with you in mind."Kurt Vonnegut's oldest daughter ...Show more
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From ratty attic to Auschwitz and back again, Mother Night is the confessions of Howard W Campbell Jr - an American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy - not a moral man. This mournful, macabre and diabolically funny tale of unsung heroism uses acrid humour to underline the horror of it ...Show more
Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays from novelist Kurt VonnegutIn Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead ...Show more