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Summary: ""If ever I do write anything of length--good or bad--it will be written with you in mind." Kurt Vonnegut's oldest daughter, Edith, was cleaning out her mother's attic when she stumbled upon a dusty box. Inside were more than two-hundred love letters written by Kurt to Jane, spanning the early years of their relationship: from 1941, when nineteen-year-old Kurt heads off to college, to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VONSummary: An American playwright living in pre-World War II Berlin becomes an allied spy within the Nazi Party. After the war, when he goes back to America, he is confronted by both Nazi haters and sympathizers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOTEdith
Summary: A beautiful adaptation of the classic novel. Renowned graphic novel artist, Edith, has created an enchanting version of the classic Tom's Midnight Garden. This is a new and special way to read and share one of the best-loved and most enduring children's stories of all time. A story with a special place in the hearts of grandparents, parents, and children everywhere, this wonderful graphic novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 EDIVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: ..."The final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. Now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONSummary: Portrait of the relationship between two eccentric recluses, Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and talk about their past behind the walls of their East Hampton mansion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC GREVonnegut, Kurt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VONVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: A volume of fourteen early and previously unpublished short works offers insight into the social satirist's developing literary style and includes pieces that explore such themes as innocence, ironic twists of fate, and morality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Foreword by Dave Eggers Smart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writers--including Dave Eggers, author of this volume's Foreword. In these previously unpublished gems, Vonnegut's originality infuses a unique landscape of factories, trailers, and bars--and characters who pit their dreams and fears against a cruel and sometimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Contents: Mirage -- Land of some other order -- The dire and ever circling wolves -- Left in the desert -- Lens of unrectified night -- An inquest concerning teeth -- Ralford (The felon wind) -- The dry lake -- Tethered to the polestar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Lord 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EarthVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: The author questions the condition of modern man in this novel depicting a science fiction writer's struggle to find peace and sanity in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2006
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Summary: "Chiefly consists of selected graduation speeches given by Vonnegut at various educational institutions"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 815.54 VONVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: A compilation of personal correspondence written over a sixty-year period offers insight into the iconic American author's literary personality, his experiences as a German POW, his struggles with fame, and the inspirations for his famous books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 VONVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction. In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut paints a warm, wise, and often funny portrait of life in post--World War II America--a world where squabbling couples, high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2009
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Summary: Eliot Rosewater, drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature, with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. The result is Vonnegut's funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Tarkington College, a small, exclusive college in upstate New York, is turned upside down when ten thousand prisoners from the maximum security prison across Lake Mohiga break out and head for the college.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charnwood 1991
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC VONVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: In a collection of brief autobiographical essays, the renowned novelist offers his views on art, politics, and everyday life in America. A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life "If I die-God forbid-I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"), art ("To practice any art,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VONNEGUT, KURT VONVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: An anthology of sixteen previously unpublished works includes selections from the iconic writer's early literary career and is complemented by more than a dozen of his original works of art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2011
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONEarth
Contents: Indhold: Datura's Crimson Veils(12:15 min) -- Exaltation of Larks(3:19 min) -- Cats on the Briar(5:56 min) -- The Colour of Poison(5:31 min) -- Descending Belladonna(5:11 min) -- She Rides an Air of Malevolence(11:27 min) -- Maiden's Catafalque(2:49 min) -- An Unnatural Carousel(6:51 min) -- The Mandrake's Hymn(5:03 min) -- A Wretched Country of Dusk(4:28 min)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sargent House 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK EARSummary: East Hampton, the mid-1970's: documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles set up camp in a decrepit mansion known as Grey Gardens, where the eccentric Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale live amid piles of trash and mounds of cats. The film becomes an instant cult classic. Fast forward to the present day: "Grey Gardens" has inspired a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEASummary: Based on the life stories Edith "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale who are the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis. They were raised as Park Avenue débutantes, but withdrew from New York society. They took shelter at their Long Island summer home called 'Grey Gardens.' As their wealth and contact with the outside world dwindled, so did...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREVonnegut, Kurt
Summary: "The complete short stories of Kurt Vonnegut"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONVonnegut, Kurt
Summary: Malachi Constant, "the richest man in America," gives up his indulgent lifestyle to follow an urgent calling to probe the depths of space. He participates in a Martian invasion of Earth, mates with the wife of an astronaut adrift on the tides of time, and follows the lure of the "Sirens of Titan."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Twelve previously unpublished writings on war and peace include such pieces as an essay on the destruction of Dresden, a story about the first-meal fantasies of three soldiers, and a meditation on the impossibility of shielding children from the temptations of violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2008