On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are d...more
Drawn on his own World War II experiences, Slaughterhouse-Five is a commentary on the stupidity of war. The title, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five through extracts of criti...more
The New York Times bestseller-a "gripping" posthumous collection of previously unpublished work by Kurt Vonnegut on the subject of war. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve previously unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful ...more