wyszukanych pozycji: 106
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Bluebeard
ISBN: 9780385333511 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story--and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.
Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long I...
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Bluebeard
ISBN: 9780008264338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From the author of Slaughterhouse 5. In Rabo Karabekian’s fictional autobiography, Vonnegut creates an impeccably funny satirical piece, through the reflections of a seventy-one-year-old man. Review ‘Vonnegut is at his edifying best.’ The Philadelphia Inquirer ‘The quicksilver mind of Vonnegut is at it again … He displays all his talents satire, irony, ridicule, slapstick, and even a shaggy dog story of epic proportions.’ The Cincinnati Post ‘[Kurt Vonnegut is] a voice you can trust to keep poking holes in the social fabric.’ San Francisco Chronicle ‘It has the...
From the author of Slaughterhouse 5. In Rabo Karabekian’s fictional autobiography, Vonnegut creates an impeccably funny satirical piece, through th...
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Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
ISBN: 9781612190907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including his last published interview.
During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut which collects interviews from throughout his career we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end. From Kurt Vonnegut's last interview Is there another book in you, by chance? No. Look, I m 84 years old. Writers... One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including h...
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Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s
ISBN: 9780099583479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Presents a collage of author's 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.
Presents a collage of author's own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of t...
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55,44 |
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Timequake
ISBN: 9780099267546 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) According to Vonnegut's alter ego, Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on February 13, 2001. As he struggles with this time lapse, he addresses the relationship between memory and deja-vu, humanism, and suicide.
According to Vonnegut's alter ego, Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on February 13, 2001. As he struggles with this time ...
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Slaughterhouse 5
ISBN: 9781784879822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Breakfast of Champions: Discover this iconic novel from the brilliant space-wanderer Kurt Vonnegut - rejacketed in a new, witty series style.
ISBN: 9780099842606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Combines science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce.
Combines science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce.
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Cat's Cradle
ISBN: 9780241467985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) 'Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched' J. G. Ballard 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. 'A satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion' Jay McInerney 'The closest thing we had to a Voltaire' Tom Wolfe 'The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that the world is not what it appears to be. He is not only entertaining, he is electrocuting' The New York Times
'Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched' J. G. Ballard This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expres...
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2 B R 0 2 B
ISBN: 9781511985024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So was old age. Death, barring accidents, was an adventure for volunteers.
Everything was perfectly swell. There were no prisons, no slums, no insane asylums, no cripples, no poverty, no wars. All diseases were conquered. So ...
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Hocus Pocus
ISBN: 9780099877103 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This is a satirical, fiction autobiography of a West Point-trained Vietnam veteran. In the year 2001, the old soldier has been arrested for masterminding the largest prison break in history. Now his son wants to know more about him.
This is a satirical, fiction autobiography of a West Point-trained Vietnam veteran. In the year 2001, the old soldier has been arrested for mastermind...
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Welcome to the Monkey House
ISBN: 9781784877033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A MASTERFUL COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FIVE SHORT STORIES FROM THE INIMITABLE AUTHOR OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5, KURT VONNEGUT 'Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer...a zany but moral mad scientist' Time A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms.
A MASTERFUL COLLECTION OF TWENTY-FIVE SHORT STORIES FROM THE INIMITABLE AUTHOR OF SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5, KURT VONNEGUT 'Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr Calig...
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Typical Cynical: A Collection of Short Stories by Kurt Vonnegut plus Selections from A Cynic's Word Book by Ambrose Bierce
ISBN: 9781973787266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works
ISBN: 9780306822780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Called our finest black-humorist by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.
Written to be sold under the pseudonym of Mark Harvey, Basic Training was never published in Vonnegut s lifetime. It appears to have been written in the late 1940s and is therefore Vonnegut s first ever novella. It is a bitter, profoundly disenchanted story that satirizes the... Called our finest black-humorist by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his fi...
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June
ISBN: 9780099583660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) For eight years, big game hunter and war hero Harold Ryan has been presumed dead, lost in the Amazon rainforest while hunting for diamonds. Now he's back, only to find his wife engaged to a hippy doctor and his son transformed into a pampered sissy.
For eight years, big game hunter and war hero Harold Ryan has been presumed dead, lost in the Amazon rainforest while hunting for diamonds. Now he's b...
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Player Piano
ISBN: 9783453322660 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Ilium, New York, in der nahen Zukunft. Alles wird von Maschinen produziert, der Großteil der amerikanischen Arbeiterklasse ist überflüssig geworden. Für Ingenieur Paul Proteus erweist sich diese schöne neue Welt als sinnentleerte Hölle - und so stellt er sich gegen das System. Doch diesen Kampf kann er unmöglich gewinnen.Der große Klassiker der amerikanischen Gegenwartsliteratur - erstmals ungekürzt und in neuer Übersetzung von Peter Torberg!
Ilium, New York, in der nahen Zukunft. Alles wird von Maschinen produziert, der Großteil der amerikanischen Arbeiterklasse ist überflüssig geworden...
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Schlachthof 5, 1 Audio-CD, 1 MP3
ISBN: 9783742416278 / Niemiecki / CD-Audio / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Billy Pilgrim, amerikanischer Veteran des Zweiten Weltkriegs, überlebte 1945 den »Feuersturm« auf Dresden als Gefangener im »Schlachthof 5«. Nach dem Krieg lebt er mit seiner Frau und seinen zwei Kindern in Ilium, New York. Doch dann geht sein Sohn nach Vietnam - und Pilgrim selbst wird auf überraschende Weise zum »Pilger zwischen den Zeiten«. Kurt Vonnegut, Zeuge des »größten Massakers in der Geschichte Europas«, verarbeitete sein Trauma in diesem Roman, der zum Kultbuch der Anti-Vietnam-Generation wurde. Die Lesung mit Jan Josef Liefers beweist die zeitlose Qualität dieses...
Billy Pilgrim, amerikanischer Veteran des Zweiten Weltkriegs, überlebte 1945 den »Feuersturm« auf Dresden als Gefangener im »Schlachthof 5«. Nach...
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Slaughterhouse-Five
ISBN: 9780440180296 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1991 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey throu...
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If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
ISBN: 9781609806101 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
ISBN: 9781609800734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, conducting interviews: with Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction worker who died of a heart attack while rescuing his schnauzer...
From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife nev...
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50,40 |
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Welcome To The Monkey House and Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
ISBN: 9780099387817 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) From riffs on country music, George Bush, and his mother's midnight mania, to a bittersweet tribute to a dead friend, this book demonstrates why Kurt Vonnegut is equally well known as an essayist and commentator as he is a novelist. It resonates with Vonnegut's singular voice.
From riffs on country music, George Bush, and his mother's midnight mania, to a bittersweet tribute to a dead friend, this book demonstrates why Kurt ...
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