When Walter F. Starbuck, the least celebrated of the Watergate conspirators, is freed from jail after two years, his first 24 hours of freedom take shape with the unforeseen turns of fortune and moral innuendo of an urban fairytale. The author's other novels include "Slaughterhouse 5".
According to Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, the old science fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur on February 13, 2001, at 2:27 p.m. It will be the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience: Should it go on expanding indefinitely, or collapse and make another great big BANG? For its own cosmic reasons, it decides to ...more
This is vintage Vonnegut: short stories never-before collected or published in book form. They are from the era of the Golden Age of magazines: a pre-television time when publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's,,Argosy, and others reigned supreme as Americans' entertainment choice.Before that Golden Age drew to a close half a cent...more
Only Vonnegut could make death, and our aversion to it, a comic adventure. Here he skips back and forth between life and the afterlife as if the difference between them were slight. In thirty-some "interviews" - with Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, Eugene Debs, John Brown, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare and, among others, a nonentity who died w...more
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. himself reads from his most celebrated works: Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and three complete stories from Welcome to the Monkey House. "A satirist, a keen observer of the follies of mankind and of the hypocrisies of its leaders" -Isaac Asimov
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. . . . [Reading A Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an old friend.” –The New...more
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