Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut in turn tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man’s careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves. *From the Trade Paperback edition.*

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). He was also known for his humanist beliefs and being honorary president of the American Humanist Association. His short work, "The Big Trip Up Yonder," is a genre science fiction tale originally published in the magazine "Galaxy Science Fiction" in 1959.

It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is stupider, uglier, weaker, or slower than anyone else. The Handicapper General and a team of agents ensure that the laws of equality are enforced. One April, fourteen-year-old Harrison Bergeron is taken away from his parents, George and Hazel, by the government.

**Welcome to the Monkey House** is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as *The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction* and* The Atlantic Monthly*, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. *From the Trade Paperback edition.*

s/t: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s Preface 21 Sections Appendices w/Comments by the author: What My Son Mark Wanted Me to Tell the Psychiatrists in Philadelphis, which was also the Afterword to a New Edition of his Book The Eden Express On Literature by Karel Capek, from Toward the Radical Center, Catbird Press, '90 What Bernard V. O'Hare Said about Our Friendship on My 60th Birthday From The Bomber's Baedeker, Guide to the Economic Importance of German Towns & Cities, '44 English Translation of the Latin Mass Promulgated by Pope St Pius V in 1570 by Decree of the Council of Trent Mass Promulgated by Me in 1985 Latin Version of My Mass by John F. Collins Unpublished Essay by Me, Written after Reading Galleys of an Anthology of 1st-rate Poems & Short Prose Pieces by Persons Who Were or Are in Institutions for the Mentally Ill My Reply to a Letter from the Dean of the Chapel at Transylvania University about a Speech I Gave There Also several photos & drawings

In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth. From the Trade Paperback edition.

A never-before-seen collection of deeply intimate love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter and reproduced in gorgeous full color."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 deployment to Europe in 1944 and the couple's marriage in 1945. The letters are full of the humor and wit that we have come to associate with Kurt Vonnegut. But they also show more private corners of his mind: Passionate and tender, the letters form an illuminating portrait of a young soldier's life in World War II as he attempts to come to grips with love and mortality. And they expose...

According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the world endure ten years of deja-vu and a total loss of free will - not to mention the torture of reliving every nanosecond of one of the tawdiest and most hollow decades. With his trademark wicked wit, Vonnegut addresses memory, suicide, the Great Depression, the loss of American eloquence, and the obsolescent thrill of reading books.

**Deadeye Dick** is Kurt 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 bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what we believe . . . and who we say we are. *From the Trade Paperback edition.*

Kurt Vonnegut is considered by many to be one of the most underrated writers of science fiction to have been active in the transitional stage between the Golden Age of sci-fi and the modern era, when motion picture and CGI took the place of good old-fashioned stories like 2 B R O 2 B.The tale at hand is a short satirical dramatic reading that will only take about 15 minutes to go through, but that also carries a lot of weight both when it comes to the presented concepts and Vonnegut's masterful writing style.The title is based on Shakespeare's eternal words "To be or not to be," and reflects the essence of this captivating, yet chilling tale with eerie accuracy. The plot presents us with a possible future of the United States, where poverty, disease and even death were all conquered. Unfortunately, there were consequences: with depleted resources and the average human life span extended to about 130, the population of the United States had to be maintained at 40 million. For each newborn, the "Federal Bureau of Termination" had to ensure the death of another citizen in order to prevent overpopulation.This bleak prospect took Edward K. Wehling, Jr., to the brink of an impossible dilemma, when he was notified at the hospital that his wife was expecting triplets.During his lengthy career, Vonnegut was famous for his dark satirical style which can also be seen in 2 B R O 2 B. He has written a total of 14 novels, three short story collections, as well as several plays and works of non-fiction. His best known work is Slaughterhouse Five, a satirical novel with equally disturbing, dark connotations as the story presented here.For anyone interested in dark satire and outstandingly well-written sci-fi, 2 B R O 2 B is one of the most intense and enjoyable Kurt Vonnegut stories you can consider listening to.

**Mother Night** is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all.

**Galápagos** takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry–and all that is worth saving.

The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s--a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, cherished dog, and prized jalopy--and then the nervous breakdowns in all their slow-motion intimacy, the taste of mortality and opportunity for humor they provided, and the grim despair they afforded as well. That he emerged to write this funny and true book and then moved on to find the meaningful life that for a while had seemed beyond reach is what ultimately happens in The Eden Express. But the real story here is that throughout his harrowing experience his sense of humor let him see the humanity of what he was going through, and his gift of language let him describe it in such a moving way that others could begin to imagine both its utter ordinariness as well as the madness we all share.

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. *God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater* is Kurt Vonnegut’s funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir to. *From the Trade Paperback edition.*

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 phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.Written to be sold under the pseudonym of "Mark Harvey," Basic Training was never published in Vonnegut's lifetime. It appears to have been written in the late 1940s and is therefore Vonnegut's first ever novella. It is a bitter, profoundly disenchanted story that satirizes the military, authoritarianism, gender relationships, parenthood and most of the assumed mid-century myths of the family. Haley Brandon, the adolescent protagonist, comes to the farm of his relative, the old crazy who insists upon being called The General, to learn to be a straight-shooting American. Haley's only means of survival will lead him to unflagging defiance of the General's deranged (but oh...