Vonnegut, Kurt

Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut( 书 )
205 editions published between 1968 and 2008 in 30 languages and held by 5,004 libraries worldwide
When an American is captured by German soldiers during World War II, he becomes unstuck in time and jumps into different parts of his life, including when he was captured by aliens and put in their zoo, his marriage, and even his own death.

Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut( 书 )
123 editions published between 1963 and 2008 in 21 languages and held by 3,806 libraries worldwide
The Day the World Ended Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. Jonah--John--if I had been a Sam, I would have been Jonah still--not because I have been unlucky for others, but because somebody or something has compelled me to be certain places at certain times, without fail. Conveyances and motives, both conventional and bizarre, have been provided. And, according to plan, at each appointed second, at each appointed place this Jonah was there. Listen: When I was a younger man--two wives ago, 250,000 cigarettes ago, 3,000 quarts of booze ago . . . When I was a much younger man, I began to collect material for a book to be called The Day the World Ended.

Breakfast of champions; or, Goodbye blue Monday by Kurt Vonnegut( 书 )
108 editions published between 1973 and 2008 in 19 languages and held by 3,645 libraries worldwide
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

Jailbird : a novel by Kurt Vonnegut( 书 )
53 editions published between 1979 and 2006 in 19 languages and held by 3,511 libraries worldwide
Harvard, the New Deal, the Holocaust, World War II, Watergate, two prison terms, and a giant conglomerate - Walter Starbuck, who tries to live by the Sermon on the Mount, experiences them all. Shall the meek inherit the earth? Perhaps on a short-term basis.

Galápagos : a novel by Kurt Vonnegut( 书 )
65 editions published between 1985 and 2008 in 23 languages and held by 3,292 libraries worldwide
Observed by a ghost of the Vietnam War for one million years, the descendants of survivors of a cruise to the Galapagos Archipielago prove Darwin's Theory of Evolution. The ghost of a shipbuilder tells the story of an ill-fated cruise to the Galapagos Islands.

Bluebeard : a novel by Kurt Vonnegut( 书 )
46 editions published between 1987 and 2008 in 20 languages and held by 3,024 libraries worldwide
An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.

Hocus pocus by Kurt Vonnegut( 书 )
36 editions published between 1990 and 2007 in 12 languages and held by 2,898 libraries worldwide
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.

Player piano by Kurt Vonnegut( 书 )
99 editions published between 1952 and 2007 in 18 languages and held by 2,868 libraries worldwide
A tough, tightly written book of a brave new world to come, which in its projection offers a tantalizing problem as well as an imaginative invention reminiscent of the early Huxley. Dr. Paul Proteus, a super engineer in a super-mechanized society, finds his life lacking in significance although he is on the eve of a spectacular promotion as the manager of the Pittsburgh works. Urged on by his sterile wife, he nonetheless finds himself listening to his iconoclastic friend Finnerty. The two spend a drunken and revealing evening among the reeks and wrecks (the common people) where they meet Lasher, a self-styled preacher who converts Finnerty and jells his resolve to break the system. Dr. Proteus wavers in a divided loyalty but when the Pittsburgh job is offered him only at the price of his betrayal of Finnerty, his Protean change is completed and he joins forces with the opposition...The automatic checker player that is beaten when crossed wires overheat it, a talking helicopter, a monstrous machine with a tape recorder memory, all these absurdly ingenious machines give the book its special quality and fascination. And this new performance on the player piano of western civilization is worthy of more thoughtful attention.

Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut( 书 )
46 editions published between 1982 and 2007 in 17 languages and held by 2,788 libraries worldwide
A young man from a peculiar family background inadvertently shoots a pregnant woman while playing with a rifle. This catastrophe has an irrevocable effect upon his life.

Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut( 书 )
38 editions published between 1997 and 2008 in 13 languages and held by 2,754 libraries worldwide
A timequake throws the universe backwards and everyone has to relive the years 1991 to 2001, including the hero, a science fiction writer. By and large, people are not pleased by the development.