Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote — from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt better in my life. Peppered with insights, one-liners and missives to the likes of Norman Mailer,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 436) Аннотация: One of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations — including his last publishedinterview. During his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut — which collectsinterviews from throughout his career — we learn much…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «In his second novel, from 1959, Kurt Vonnegut revealed his true gifts as a science fiction writer. «The spareness hits you first,» wrote William Deresiewicz in a 2012 retrospective on Vonnegut. «The first page contains 14 paragraphs, none of them longer than two sentences, some of them as short as five words. It's like he's placing pieces on a game board-so, and so, and so.» Vonnegut gives us…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies. Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. 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 in the Caribbean, to madness. Will…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «Галапагосы» — роман в некотором роде уникальный для «позднего» Курта Воннегута, поскольку именно в нем писатель, в совершенстве овладевший даром очаровывать и завораживать читателя тонкой и сверкающей иронией повествования, продолжает истории многих героев и «антигероев» своей «ранней» прозы — и делает это со зрелой мудростью настоящего мастера...»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: «Рецидивист» — роман, в определенной степени знаковый для «позднего» творчества Курта Воннегута — писателя, чье владение фирменным «сказовым» стилем достигает истинного совершенства. Перед вами — умная, тонкая и блистательная книга, обладающая, помимо всех вышеперечисленных, еще одним достоинством, — здесь Воннегут продолжает историю одного из самых обаятельных героев своей «ранней» прозы.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The richest and most depraved man on Earth takes a wild space journey to distant worlds, learning about the purpose of human life along the way.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Experiment Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it, Solution Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 677 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 134) Аннотация: Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time, a time-traveler. He has seen his birth and death many times. He has seen the biggest massacre in European history, the fire-bombing of Dresden. He has been kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. He has been taken prisoner by the Germans, packed into a boxcar for nine days and sent to an extermination camp for Russian prisoners of war,…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This is vintage Vonnegut — hilariously funny and razor-sharp as he fixes his gaze on art, politics, himself and the condition of the soul of America today. Written over the last five years in the form of a loose memoir, A Man without a Country is an intimate and tender communication to us all, sometimes despairing, always searching and ultimately wise and compassionate.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode Island, once every fifty-nine days and then only for an hour. But at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happened and…
Скачать книгу (размер 860 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 170) Аннотация: Wilbur Swain and his twin sister, Eliza, are so immensely hideous, helpless and vile in their infancy that their wealthy parents are forced to send them to live on a nearby asteroid. But behind their facade of idiocy, the monstrous pair possess a joint intelligence that could outstrip the most advanced computers...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 498 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 295) Аннотация: «A great deal of wit and playfulness... an entire universe of disorder is distilled» Guardian.»
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Tarkington College, a small, exclusive college in upstate New York, is turned upside down when ten thousand prisoners from the maximum security prison across Lake Mahiga break out and head for the college.