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Wakefield, Dan

Summary: "Dan Wakefield's biography of Kurt Vonnegut: "You could say the same for his stories, novels, and memoirs. And for the way he spoke. He said things that other people thought but didn't say, or hadn't dared to think, but recognized as true when they heard it. The truth is often shocking, he wrote, because we hear it so seldomly.""--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square books for young readers, an imprint of Seven Stories Press 2022

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 VON

Vonnegut, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VON

Strand, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STR

Shields, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VONNEGUT, KURT SHI

Vonnegut, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VON

Summary: Recounting the extraordinary life of author Kurt Vonnegut, and the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker Bob Weide, who set out to document it.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KUR

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon/HarperCollinsPublishers 2003

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VON

Vonnegut, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 VON

Summary: 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...

Format: software, multimedia

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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VONNEGUT, KURT VON

Vonnegut, Kurt

Summary: "The complete short stories of Kurt Vonnegut"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2017

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Vonnegut, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2008

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.6 VON

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