vonnegut, kurt

A collection of three novels written by Kurt Vonnegut between 1987 and 1997.

Contains seventeen essays that examine how Kurt Vonnegut's novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" explores the theme of war while reflecting society's attitudes toward military conflicts.

Intersperses a story about a glitch in the space-time continuum that forces people to relive the ten years between February 17, 1991 to February 13, 2001 exactly as they did the first time, with Vonnegut's thoughts and experiences during the summer and autumn of 1996.

Explores the topic of rebellion in various genres---novels, short fiction, poetry, drama, and films---from a broad range of different critical perspectives.

The story of Billy Pilgrim who is ordinary in almost every respect but one: he has come unstuck in time and jumps back and forth in his life with no control over where he is going next. In the end Billy learns he must concentrate on the good things and ignore the bad in life.

In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut worked in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, was a leading scientist in its research lab--or "House of Magic." Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge weather-control experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourish. While Kurt writes zippy press releases, Bernard builds silver-iodide generators and attacks clouds with dry ice. His experiments attract the attention of the government. Weather proved a decisive factor in World War II, and if the military can control the clouds, fog, and snow, they can fly more bombing missions. Maybe weather will even be--as a headline in American Magazine calls it--"The New Super Weapon." But when the army takes charge of his cloudseeding project (dubbed Project Cirrus), Bernard begins to have misgivings about the use of his inventions for harm, not to mention the evidence that they are causing alarming changes in the atmosphere. This book chronicles the intersection of these brothers' lives at a time when the possibilities of science seemed infinite. As the Cold War looms, Bernard's struggle for integrity plays out in Kurt's evolving writing style. The Brothers Vonnegut reveals how science's ability to influence the natural world also influenced one of our most inventive novelists.

Presents a critical analysis of Kurt Vonnegut's fiction, providing close readings of "Player Piano," "Cat's Cradle," "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Deadeye Dick," and others, and discussing Vonnegut's individual style, themes, popularity, and legacy.

Presents a psychoanalytic study of the works of American author Kurt Vonnegut, examining his writings as tools by which he has attempted to work out the psychologically damaging events of his own life.