Книги автора Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Sirens of Titan
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2008
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The richest and most depraved man on Earth takes a wild space journey to distant worlds, learning about the purpose of human life along the way.
Название: The Sirens of Titan
Жанр: Orion Books
Год: 1999
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When 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 gets home to Newport, Rhode Island, once every fifty-nine days and then only for an hour. But at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will be. He knows, for instance, that his wife is going to Mars to mate with Malachi Constant, the richest man in the world. He also knows that on Titan — one of Saturn's moons — is an alien from the planet Tralfamadore, who has been waiting 200,000 years for a spare part for his grounded spacecraft...
Название: Cat's Cradle
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 2012
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All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies. 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 eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Will Felix Hoenikker's death wish come true? Will his last, fatal gift to humankind bring about the end that, for all of us, is nigh? Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global apocalypse preys on our deepest fears of witnessing the end and, worse still, surviving it...
Название: Cat's Cradle
Жанр: Orion Books
Год: 2010
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Experiment 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, Solution 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 eccentric 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 an end that, for all of us, is nigh.
Название: Slapstick, or, Lonesome No More!
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1994
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Wilbur Swain and his twin sister, Eliza, are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that their wealthy parents are forced to send them to live on a nearby asteroid. But behind their facade of idiocy, the monstrous pair possess a joint intelligence that could outstrip the most advanced computers...
Название: Letters
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 2014
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This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote — from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: I am an American fad-of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop. Like Vonnegut's books, his letters make you think, they make you outraged and they make you laugh. Written over a sixty-year period, and never published before, these letters are alive with the unique point of view that made Vonnegut one of the most original writers in American fiction.
Название: A Man without a Country
Жанр: Bloomsbury Publishing
Год: 2007
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This is vintage Vonnegut — hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he fixes his gaze on art, politics, himself and the condition of the soul of America today. Written over the last five years in the form of a loose memoir, A Man without a Country is an intimate and tender communication to us all, sometimes despairing, always searching and ultimately wise and compassionate.
Название: Галапагосы
Год: 2010
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»Галапагосы» — роман в некотором роде уникальный для «позднего» Курта Воннегута, поскольку именно в нем писатель, в совершенстве овладевший даром очаровывать и завораживать читателя тонкой и сверкающей иронией повествования, продолжает истории многих героев и «антигероев» своей «ранней» прозы — и делает это со зрелой мудростью настоящего мастера...
Название: Механическое пианино
Год: 2010
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Вы — в мире умных машин. В мире машин слишком умных, чтобы человек, владеющий ими, был счастлив. Вы — в «дивном новом мире» потребительской цивилизации, где «человек разумный» практически вынужден обратиться в «человека благополучного». Вы — в машинном раю, в коем выбор прост и жесток: смириться и утратить свою человеческую сущность или из последних сил рвануться, выломиться из электрического Эдема. Вы уверены, что способны победить? Уверены? А что вы станете делать после победы?..
Название: Рецидивист
Год: 2010
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»Рецидивист» — роман, в определенной степени знаковый для «позднего» творчества Курта Воннегута — писателя, чье владение фирменным «сказовым» стилем достигает истинного совершенства. Перед вами — умная, тонкая и блистательная книга, обладающая, помимо всех вышеперечисленных, еще одним достоинством, — здесь Воннегут продолжает историю одного из самых обаятельных героев своей «ранней» прозы.
Название: Hocus Pocus
Жанр: Penguin Group
Год: 1991
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Tarkington College, a small, exclusive college in upstate New York, is turned upside down when ten thousand prisoners from the maximum security prison across Lake Mahiga break out and head for the college.
Название: Breakfast of Champions
Жанр: Random House Inc.
Год: 1992
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»A great deal of wit and playfulness... an entire universe of disorder is distilled» Guardian.
Название: Бойня №5 (на английском языке)
Жанр: Easy Readers
Год: 2007
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Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time, a time-traveler. He has seen his birth and death many times. He has seen the biggest massacre in European history, the fire-bombing of Dresden. He has been kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. He has been taken prisoner by the Germans, packed into a boxcar for nine days and sent to an extermination camp for Russian prisoners of war, and from there to Dresden, the open city that would never be bombed. There are hardly any characters in this story, and practically no dramatic confrontations because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of powerful forces. The story is told with black humour and a deep compassion; a lesson about our world that we should never forget.
