This is the second volume of Vonnegut’s autobiographical writings – a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of the planet and Andrew Lloyd Webber....

This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a counter-culture classic....

An \"autobiographical collage\" of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother\"s midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead marriage....

A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms. A scientist discovers the secret to unlocking instant happiness, with unexpected consequences. In an America where everyone is equal every which way, a tennage boy plans to overthrow the system....

Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America\"s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as \\\"a true artist\\\"* with Cat\"s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, \\\"one of the best living American writers....

Rudy Waltz hasn\"t had it easy. After accidentally committing manslaughter at the age of twelve, the traumas life continued to throw at him seemed almost inconsequential. Now fifty-four, an expat living in Haiti, he\"s reliving the harrowing moments of his life that have left him in his current disillusioned state....

As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come....

Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5 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....

Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world\"s great anti-war books....

Manhattan has become the Island of Death. The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a cooking fire in the lobby of the Empire State Building. He is Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain and Slapstick or Lonesome No More!...

Kurt Vonnegut was a dogged reviser, starting and restarting stories, tweaking phrases, changing names, adding and eliminating plot lines and characters, honing, one word at a time, the seemingly offhand voice that millions of readers would come to love....

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\"....

Those who know Kurt Vonnegut as one of America\'s most beloved and influential writers will be surprised and delighted to discover that he was also a gifted graphic artist. This book brings together the finest examples of his funny, strange, and moving drawings in an inexpensive, beautifully produced gift volume for every Vonnegut fan....

Vonnegut\'s spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines....

Kurt Vonnegut, described by Graham Greene as One of the best living American writers, is equally well known as an essayist and commentator on American society as he is a novelist. This volume brings together the best of his shorter work - essays,......