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The History of Love: A Novel

Krauss

(634 reviews )

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Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl, named for one of the book's characters, seeks her namesake, as well as a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. By the author of Man Walks Into a Room. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.

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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour An Introduction

J D Salinger

(66 reviews )

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Buddy Glass introduces his older brother and describes the events of Seymour's wedding day.

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Franny and Zooey

J D Salinger

(391 reviews )

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Two children of the Glass family appear in separate stories set in twentieth-century New York.

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Nine Stories

J. D. Salinger

(240 reviews )

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"DeDaumier-Smith's Blue Period," "Teddy," and "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" are among the nine works in a collection of Salinger's perceptive and realistic short stories.

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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons

Kurt Vonnegut

(24 reviews )

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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and the writing of others. An indignant, outrageous, always witty, and deeply felt collection of reviews, essays, and speeches, this work is a window not only into Vonnegut’...more

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Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Kurt Vonnegut

(18 reviews )

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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 life. It is a work that resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice: the magic sound of a born-...more

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Jailbird: A Novel

Kurt Vonnegut

(37 reviews )

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A master of contemporary American literature, Vonnegut has authored 18 highly acclaimed books and dozens of short stories and essays. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentiary as Watergate's least known co-conspirator.

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All Editions	Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut (101 reviews ) Description This novel tells the story of a devilish pair of twins whose enormous intellect is hidden behind a facade of idiocy. Popular Tags: humorous fiction, black humor, fiction - classic ...more humorous fiction , black humor , fiction - classic , fiction themes , gift , literature , made into a movie , satire , two copies , vonnegut
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Deadeye Dick: A Novel

Kurt Vonnegut

(54 reviews )

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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 Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale...more

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black humor , bombs and guns , family & friendship , fiction themes , friendship, general , humorous fiction , i love vonnegut , military , neutron bomb , nuclear warfare , slightly futuristic , slightly historical , weapons

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Bagombo Snuff Box

Kurt Vonnegut

(33 reviews )

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An anthology of previously uncollected short stories features twenty-four of the author's favorite tales, including "Any Reasonable Offer," "The Powder Blue Dragon," "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp," and "Lover's Anonymous." Reprint.

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