Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: While mortals sleep
ISBN: 0099529068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099529064
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: Set in trailers, bars and factories, Vonnegut conjures up a world where men and machines, art and artifice, fame and fortune become curiously twisted and characters pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and comically indifferent world.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Slaughterhouse 5
ISBN: 0099800209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099800200
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
ISBN: 0099582945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099582946
Издательство: Random House
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Цена: 9080 T
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Описание: Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer, Gunter Grass and Bernard Malamud, the author is funny, wise and modest. As he himself said: `I am an American fad-of a slightly higher order than the hula hoop.` This title deals with these works.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Jailbird
ISBN: 0099999005 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099999003
Издательство: Random House
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Цена: 6050 T
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Описание: Pay attention please to the life of Walter F Starbuck. 1913, gave him the gift of life. 1970, gave him a job in the Nixon White House. 1975, sent him to prison for his part in the `Watergate` scandal. Now he is coming out of jail, into the brave new world of 1980s Manhattan. This title tells the story of his first twenty-four hours of freedom.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Slapstick
ISBN: 0385334230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385334235
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 7360 T
Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: Flying to a favorite uncle's funeral, a middle-aged Kurt Vonnegut daydreams of one-hundred-year-old Wilbur Oriole-11 Swain, pediatrician and past United States President, who wrote history's most popular child-rearing manual and sold the original Louisiana Purchase.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Hocus Pocus
ISBN: 0425130215 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425130216
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4260 T
Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: 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.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction
ISBN: 0385343744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385343749
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 8180 T
Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Foreword by Dave Eggers

These previously unpublished, beautifully rendered works of fiction are a testament to Kurt Vonnegut's unique blend of observation and imagination. Here are stories of men and machines, art and artifice, and how ideals of fortune, fame, and love take curious twists in ordinary lives.

An ambitious builder of roads fritters away his free time with miniature trains--until the women in his life crash his fantasy land. Trapped in a stenography pool, a young dreamer receives a call from a robber on the run, who presents her with a strange proposition. A crusty newspaperman is forced onto a committee to judge Christmas displays--a job that leads him to a suspiciously ostentatious ex-con and then a miracle. Featuring a Foreword by Dave Eggers, While Mortals Sleep is a poignant reflection of our world as it is and as it could be.

Includes the following stories:

"Jenny"
"The Epizootic"
"Hundred-Dollar Kisses"
"Guardian of the Person"
"With His Hand on the Throttle"
"Girl Pool"
"Ruth"
"While Mortals Sleep"
"Out, Brief Candle"
"Tango"
"Bomar"
"The Man Without No Kiddleys"
"Mr. Z"
"$10,000 a Year, Easy"
"Money Talks"
"The Humbugs"

Praise for While Mortals Sleep

"Immensely readable and thoroughly entertaining."--The Washington Post

"Taut, concise . . . The stories set themselves up with neat swiftness, proceed at a clip, and shut down with equal speed, showing Vonnegut] honing his skills in structure and satire."--Los Angeles Times

"A lovely reminder of the mischievous moral voice we lost when we lost Kurt Vonnegut."--San Francisco Chronicle

"These stories were all good when they were written decades ago, but many strike me as great now. Never has the voice of Kurt Vonnegut, humanist and humorist, been more relevant."--The Seattle Times

"There's something distinctly timeless about Vonnegut's vision."--Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Bluebeard
ISBN: 038533351X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385333511
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 7290 T
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Описание: An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves....Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional biography of aging artist Rabo Karabekian--first introduced in Breakfast of Champions--who wants only to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked in his potato barn.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Galapagos
ISBN: 0586090452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780586090459
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: 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".

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Cat`s Cradle
ISBN: 0141189347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141189345
Издательство: Penguin Books Ltd
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Цена: 5090 T
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Описание: Dr Felix Hoenikker is the inventor of `ice-nine`, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker`s three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean. 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.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: God bless you, mr.rosewater
ISBN: 0099842807 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099842804
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: 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".

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Armageddon in Retrospect
ISBN: 0099524082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099524083
Издательство: Random House
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Цена: 4810 T
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Описание: 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 in this title 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.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Look at the Birdie
ISBN: 0099548852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099548850
Издательство: Random House
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Цена: 5090 T
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Описание: 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 "Look at the Birdie," a quack psychiatrist turned "murder counsellor" concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Slaughterhouse-five
ISBN: 0440180295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780440180296
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Цена: 3050 T
Наличие на складе: Есть в Астане
Описание: Billy Pilgrim survives capture by the Gemans in World War II, the Dresden bombings, and the struggle for financial success only to be kidnapped in a flying saucer and taken to the planet Tralfamadore.

Автор: Vonnegut Kurt
Название: Cat`s cradle HB
ISBN: 0575081953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780575081956
Издательство: Orion Publishers
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Цена: 3580 T
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Описание: One of America`s greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation