Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied...

Es scheint, dass es hier eine Verwechslung gibt. "Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street" ist ein Buch von Lee Stringer, nicht von Kurt Vonnegut. Das Buch ist eine Sammlung autobiografischer Erzählungen über das Leben des Autors...

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...

"Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable."-The New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the...

"[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending."-The Charlotte ObserverWelcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt...

"Schlachthof Fünf oder Der Kinderkreuzzug" von Kurt Vonnegut ist ein anti-kriegs Science-Fiction-Roman, der die Erfahrungen des Protagonisten Billy Pilgrim erzählt. Billy ist ein unauffälliger amerikanischer Soldat im Zweiten Weltkrieg,...

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...

"[Kurt Vonnegut's] best book . . . He dares not only ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it."-EsquireNominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThe Sirens of Titan is an...

First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's...

"Relentlessly fun to read."-Dave Eggers • A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fictionIn this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he...

"Ranks with Vonnegut's best and goes one step beyond . . . joyous, soaring fiction."-The Atlanta Journal and ConstitutionBroad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one,...

"[Kurt Vonnegut] is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer."-Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIn this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about...