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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 ? April 11, 2007) was an American writer known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published 14 novels, 3 short-story collections, 5 plays, and 5 nonfiction works; further collections have been published after his death. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Vonnegut attended Cornell University but withdrew in January 1943 and enlisted in the US Army. As part of his training, he studied mechanical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and the University of Tennessee. He was then deployed to Europe to fight in World War II and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was interned in Dresden, where he survived the Allied bombing of the city in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. After the war, he married Jane Marie Cox, with whom he had three children. He adopted his nephews after his sister died of cancer and her husband was killed in a train accident. He and his wife both attended the University of Chicago, while he worked as a night reporter for the City News Bureau. Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952. The novel was reviewed positively but was not commercially successful at the time. In the nearly 20 years that followed, he published several novels that were well regarded, two of which (The Sirens of Titan [1959] and Cat's Cradle [1963]) were nominated for the Hugo Award for best SF or fantasy novel of the year. He published a short-story collection titled Welcome to the Monkey House in 1968. His breakthrough was his commercially and critically successful sixth novel, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). The book's anti-war sentiment resonated with its readers amidst the ongoing Vietnam War, and its reviews were generally positive. After its release, Slaughterhouse-Five went to the top of The New York Times Best Seller list, thrusting Vonnegut into fame. He was invited to give speeches, lectures, and commencement addresses around the country, and received many awards and honors. Later in his career, Vonnegut published several autobiographical essays and short-story collections, such as Fates Worse Than Death (1991) and A Man Without a Country (2005). After his death, he was hailed as one of the most important contemporary writers and a dark humor commentator on American society. His son Mark published a compilation of his unpublished works, titled Armageddon in Retrospect, in 2008. In 2017, Seven Stories Press published Complete Stories, a collection of Vonnegut's short fiction, including five previously unpublished stories. Complete Stories was collected and introduced by Vonnegut friends and scholars Jerome Klinkowitz and Dan Wakefield. Numerous scholarly works have examined Vonnegut's writing and humor.
Books Published: 24 Books
Published Books
Slaughterhouse Five : A novel
Kurt Vonnegut
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Rs. 349
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Cat's Cradle (Penguin Modern Classics)
Kurt Vonnegut
Rs. 399
Rs. 279
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Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Rs. 399
Rs. 359
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Slapstick Or Lonesome No More!
Kurt Vonnegut
Rs. 750
Rs. 525
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Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut
Rs. 813
Rs. 569
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Kurt Vonnegut : Letters
Kurt Vonnegut
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Rs. 901
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Timequake
Kurt Vonnegut
Rs. 826
Rs. 578
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Welcome To The Monkey House And Palm Sunday
Kurt Vonnegut
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Rs. 349
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Welcome To The Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut
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Rs. 419
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Palm Sunday
Kurt Vonnegut
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Rs. 419
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Galapagos
Kurt Vonnegut
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Rs. 315
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Bluebeard
Kurt Vonnegut
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Rs. 315
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While Mortals Sleep
Kurt Vonnegut
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God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut
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Breakfast Of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
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Rs. 419
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Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut
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Rs. 419
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Hocus Pocus
Kurt Vonnegut
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Rs. 489
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Bagombo Snuff Box
Kurt Vonnegut
Rs. 499
Rs. 349
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Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut
Rs. 350
Rs. 315
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Slapstick Or Lonesome No More
Kurt Vonnegut
Rs. 299
Rs. 209
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