Книги автора Kurt Vonnegut
Название: Galapagos
Жанр: HarperCollins Publishers
Год: 1994
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The human survivors of the «nature cruise of the century», are quietly evolving into sleek, furry creatures with flippers and small brains. All other forms of humankind have ceased to exist, made redundant by their prized big brains. From the author of «Slaughterhouse 5».
Название: Welcome to the Monkey House
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2008
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»Welcome To The Monkey House» is a collection of Kurt Vonnueguts shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as «The Magazine of Fantasy and Science fiction» and «The Atlantic Monthly» what these superb stories share is Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
Название: Slapstick
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1999
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Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today's follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut's pen into hilarious farce — a final slapstick that may be the Almighty's joke on us all.
Название: Deadeye Dick
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1999
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Deadeye Dick is Kurt 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, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe... and who we say we are.
Название: Bluebeard
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1998
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Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story — and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.
Название: Player Piano
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1999
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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.
Название: God Bless You, Mr: Rosewater
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2008
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A novel about people, their pleasures, pains and perversions, and money. It is a satire on insanity — a millionaire's private lunacy, the inherited obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness that grips a whole nation. The author's other novels include «Slaughterhouse 5».
Название: Jailbird
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1992
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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».
Название: Slaughterhouse 5
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1991
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Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller — these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. «Slaughterhouse 5» is one of the world's great anti-war books. 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.
Название: Slaughterhouse-Five
Год: 1998
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»Slaughterhous-Five» is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Название: Armageddon in Retrospect
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2009
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First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut’s death, «Armageddon in Retrospect» is a collection of twelve new and unpublished writings on war and peace. Imbued with Vonnegut’s trademark rueful humour, the pieces range from a visceral nonfiction recollection of the destruction of Dresden during World War II—a piece that is as timely today as it was then—to a painfully funny short story about three privates and their fantasies of the perfect first meal upon returning home from war, to a darker, more poignant story about the impossibility of shielding our children from the temptations of violence. Also included are Vonnegut’s last speech as well as an assortment of his artwork, with an introduction by the author’s son, Mark Vonnegut. «Armageddon in Retrospect» says as much about the times in which we live as it does about the genius of the writer.
Название: Mother Night
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1992
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A companion novel to Slaughterhouse 5, covering similar themes and drawing on the author's experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. A black satire, it tells of an American spy in Germany who becomes confused by his own methods as he sends his coded messages by using pro-Nazi radio broadcasts.
Название: Timequake
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2009
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According to Vonnegut's alter ego, science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13 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 back up a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja vu and a total loss of free will-not to mention reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades. In 1996, dead centre of the 're-run' Vonnegut is wrestling again with Time-quake I, a book he couldn't write the first time and won't be able to now. As he struggles, he addresses, with his trademark wicked wit, the relationship between memory and deja vu, humanism, suicide, the Great Depression and World War II as the last generated character builders, the loss of American eloquence, the obsolescent thrill of reading books, and what 'extended family' really means.
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1994
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Kurt Vonnegut, described by Graham Greene as One of the best living American writers, is equally well known as an essayist and commentator on American society as he is a novelist. This volume brings together the best of his shorter work — essays, stories, speeches, letters, articles and autobiography.
Название: Look at the Birdie
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2010
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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 into a magical invention. In Ed Luby's Key Club, a man finds himself in a Kafkaesque world of trouble after he runs afoul of the shady underworld boss who calls the shots in an upstate New York town. In Look at the Birdie, a quack psychiatrist turned 'murder counsellor' concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. The stories are cautionary they also brim with his trademark humour. Wry, ironic, satirical and poignant Look at the Birdie reflects the anxieties of the postwar era in which they were written and provides an insight into the development of Vonnegut's early style.
Название: Cat's Cradle
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2008
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Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it... Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to mankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...
