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Like Shaking Hands with God
A Conversation about Writing
Kurt Vonnegut, Lee Stringer

Photographs by Art Shay
Foreword by Dan Simon


Kurt Vonnegut


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We Are What We Pretend To Be
The First and Last Works
Kurt Vonnegut
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...



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God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Kurt Vonnegut
So when my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever, God forbid, I hope someone will say 'He's up in Heaven now.' Who really knows? I could have dreamed all this.God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian includes all of Kurt Vonnegut's intrepid...



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Look at the Birdie
Short Fiction
Kurt Vonnegut
  Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen short stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction. This series of perfectly rendered vignettes, never before published in Kurt Vonnegut's lifetime, reveals a warm, wise, and funny...



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Armageddon in Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut
The New York Times bestseller—a “gripping” posthumous collection of previously unpublished work by Kurt Vonnegut on the subject of war. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection...



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Deadeye Dick
Kurt Vonnegut
Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors–a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron...



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Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane." So reads the tombstone of downtrodden writer Kilgore Trout, but we have no doubt who's really talking: his alter ego Kurt Vonnegut. Health versus sickness, humanity versus inhumanity--both...



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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim...



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Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the...



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Welcome to the Monkey House
Stories
Kurt Vonnegut
This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative...



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Hocus Pocus
Kurt Vonnegut
This novel tells the story of a devilish pair of twins whose enormous intellect is hidden behind a facade of...



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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim...