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Library of America 273Vonnegut, Kurt
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 VONStrand, Ginger Gail.
Summary: "Worlds collide in this true story of weather control in the Cold War era and the making of Kurt Vonnegut In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leadingscientist in its research lab--or "House of Magic." Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STRShields, Charles J.
Summary: An authorized portrait of the influential twentieth-century American writer draws on first-person accounts and Vonnegut's private letters while offering insight into his youth, the inspirations for his work, and his enduring literary impact.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VONNEGUT, KURT SHIVonnegut, 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 VONVonnegut, Kurt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon/HarperCollinsPublishers 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC 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 VONSummary: Mix together a small town community theater’s shy leading man and the lovely telephone worker who moves into town and you have a perfect recipe for a delightful romantic comedy. Academy Award-winners Susan Sarandon and Christopher Walken star as the couple who discover that affairs of the heart on the stage may be a bit less complicated than continuing the romance off the stage. Director...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Vonnegut, 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: "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: 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