Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Slaughterhouse-five ISBN: 0440180295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780440180296 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 6130.00 T Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление. Описание: Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time).
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”
An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.”
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Cat`s Cradle ISBN: 0241951607 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241951606 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 7920.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: 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.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Breakfast of Champions ISBN: 0099842602 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099842606 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 9600.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum of American society, releasing some of his best-loved literary creations on the scene.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Cat`s Cradle ISBN: 0141189347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141189345 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 7910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть 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: Cat`s cradle HB ISBN: 0575081953 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780575081956 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 10110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: One of America`s greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Mother night ISBN: 0099819309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099819301 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: `Black satire of the highest polish` GuardianWhilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Can a black or white verdict ever be reached in a world that`s a gazillion shades of grey?`After Vonnegut, everything else seems a bit tame` Spectator
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Kurt Vonnegut: Letters ISBN: 0099582945 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099582946 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 13190.00 T Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве. Описание: 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.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Timequake ISBN: 0099267543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099267546 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: It decides to wind the clock back 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 the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Look at the Birdie: Short Fiction ISBN: 0385343728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385343725 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 9120.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: "Relentlessly fun to read."--Dave Eggers - A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post-World War II America--a world where squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. Here are tales both cautionary and hopeful, each brimming with Vonnegut's trademark humor and profound humanism. A family learns the downside of confiding their deepest secrets into a magical invention. 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. A quack psychiatrist turned "murder counselor" concocts a novel new outlet for his paranoid patients. While these stories reflect the anxieties of the postwar era that Vonnegut was so adept at capturing--and provide insight into the development of his early style--collectively, they have a timeless quality that makes them just as relevant today as when they were written. It's impossible to imagine any of these pieces flowing from the pen of another writer; each in its own way is unmistakably, quintessentially Vonnegut. Featuring a foreword by author and longtime Vonnegut confidant Sidney Offit and illustrated with Vonnegut's characteristically insouciant line drawings, Look at the Birdie is an unexpected gift for readers who thought his unique voice had been stilled forever--and serves as a terrific introduction to his short fiction for anyone who has yet to experience his genius. Includes these never-before-published stories: "Confido" "FUBAR" "Shout About It from the Housetops" "Ed Luby's Key Club" "A Song for Selma" "Hall of Mirrors" "The Nice Little People" "Hello, Red" "Little Drops of Water" "The Petrified Ants" "The Honor of a Newsboy" "Look at the Birdie" "King and Queen of the Universe" "The Good Explainer" " Look at the Birdie] brings us the late writer's young voice as he skewers--sometimes gently, always lethally--post World War II America."--The Boston Globe
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir ISBN: 0385343809 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385343800 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 10420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
More than thirty years after the publication of his acclaimed memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his story in this searingly funny, iconoclastic account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling, and learning that willpower isn't nearly enough.
Here is Mark's life childhood as the son of a struggling writer, as well as the world after Mark was released from a mental hospital. At the late age of twenty-eight and after nineteen rejections, he is finally accepted to Harvard Medical School, where he gains purpose, a life, and some control over his condition. There are the manic episodes, during which he felt burdened with saving the world, juxtaposed against the real-world responsibilities of running a pediatric practice. Ultimately a tribute to the small, daily, and positive parts of a life interrupted by bipolar disorder, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So is a wise, unsentimental, and inspiring book that will resonate with generations of readers.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Player Piano ISBN: 0440170370 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780440170372 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 4290.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Vonnegut Kurt Название: Hocus Pocus ISBN: 0425130215 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780425130216 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 5520.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: From the author of Timequake, this "irresistible" novel (Cleveland Plain Dealer) tells the story of Eugene Debs Hartke-Vietnam veteran, jazz pianist, college professor, and prognosticator of the apocalypse. Here is the adventure of Eugene Debs Hartke. He's a Vietnam veteran, a jazz pianist, a college professor, and a prognosticator of the apocalypse (and other things Earth-shattering). But that's neither here nor there. Because at Tarkington College-where he teaches-the excrement is about to hit the air-conditioning. And it's all Eugene's fault. "Vonnegut is back, with plenty to say...combining clever wit with keen social observation. Hocus Pocus re-established Mr. Vonnegut's place as the Mark Twain of our times." --Atlanta Journal & Constitution
"Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date...He is a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion." --Jay McInerney, The New York Times "It's 'Vonnegut's best novel in years-funny and prophetic...something special.'" --The Nation
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