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Pity the Reader - On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut; Suzanne McConnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
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
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The debut novel of Kurt VonnegutVonnegut'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. His rebellion is a wildly funny, darkly satirical look at modern society.
Player Piano (PB) by KURT VONNEGUT
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Vonnegut's spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines.
Slapstick or Lonesome No More - Vintage Future by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Manhattan has become the Island of Death. The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a cooking fire in the lobby of the Empire State Building. He is Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain and Slapstick or Lonesome No More! is his story - one of monstrous twins, orgies, reveng ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
$36.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of a unique book: one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century.Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhou ...Show more
Slaughterhouse Five (Vintage Classics) by Kurt Vonnegut
$14.99 AUD
Category: 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: S. F. Masterworks Ser.
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fictionWhen Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only g ...Show more
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | 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
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in th ...Show more
Vonnegut Omnibus: "Welcome to the Monkey House", "Palm Sunday" by Kurt Vonnegut
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An anthology of writings by Kurt Vonnegut. "Welcome to the Monkeyhouse" brings together some of his shorter essays and stories, and "Palm Sunday" consists of speeches, letters, fiction, articles and autobiography.
We Are What We Pretend to Be : the First and Last Works by Kurt Vonnegut
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Written to be sold under the pseudonym of "Mark Harvey," this 22,000-word novella was never published in Vonnegut's lifetime. It appears (from the address on the manuscript, a suburb of Schenectady, New York and from the style and slant) to have been written in the late 1940s. Vonnegut was working in pu ...Show more
We are What We Pretend to be: The First and Last Works by Kurt Vonnegut
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Now in paperback: "our finest black-humorist" (The Atlantic Monthly) Kurt Vonnegut's first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be. Written to be sold under the pseudonym of "Mark Harvey," Basic Training ...Show more