Kurt Vonnegut

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1) Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt

Publisher

Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence

Pub. Date

1994, c1969

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A new preface by the author highlights this 25th anniversary edition of Vonnegut's classic and supremely unconventional World War II novel. Based on Vonnegut's experiences as a POW, this anti-war novel tells the story of chaplain's assistant Billy Pilgrim.

2) Adventures to Go, Book 6

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt

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The most unique multi-genre collection keeps delivering surprises. Inside this issue: the captivating true story of a WW1 pilot who survived being shot down, later escaping a German prison camp-written by Lieutenant Pat O'Brien himself. Read the Kurt Vonnegut classic 2BRO2B, get your SciFi fix, take in the underrated author Susan Glaspell, pour over poetry by Elmedina Hota-and even more...

3) Deadeye Dick

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt

Publisher

Delta Trade Paperbacks

Pub. Date

[1999], c1982

4) We are what we pretend to be: the first and last works

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt

Publisher

Vanguard Press

Pub. Date

2012

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A posthumous double volume of the influential author's first and last written works, published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of his birth, includes the bitter satire "Basic training" and the unfinished final novel "If God were alive today".

5) The sirens of titan

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt

Publisher

Delta Trade Paperbacks

Pub. Date

[1998], c1959

6) Mother night

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt

Publisher

Delta Trade Paperbacks

Pub. Date

[1999], cc1966

7) Pity the reader: on writing with style

Author

Vonnegut, Kurt

Publisher

Seven Stories

Pub. Date

[2019]

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"Here is an entirely new side of Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut as a teacher of writing. Of course he's given us glimpses before, with aphorisms and short essays and articles and in his speeches. But never before has an entire book been devoted to Kurt Vonnegut the teacher. Here is pretty much everything Vonnegut ever said or wrote having to do with the writing art and craft, altogether a healing, a nourishing expedition. McConnell has outfitted us for...