Vonnegut, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONVonnegut, Kurt.
Summary: Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale preys on our deepest fears of Armageddon. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gollancz 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VONVonnegut, Kurt.
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks 2006