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Aging writer Kilgore Trout finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is a murderous satire looking at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America
Dwayne Hoover, a successful automobile dealer in Midland City, suddenly decides that he is a machine and begins to act accordingly. Science fiction writer Kilgore Trout is on his way to the Midland City Festival of the Arts. When they meet,...
3) Mother night
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Dell Pub. Company
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[1974]
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English
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Truth and justice are blurred when American spy Howard Campbell is tried in Israel as a Nazi war criminal after World War II.
Novel in the form of a diary written by an American who lived in Germany during World War II, relating his experience of being recruited by Allied intelligence to act as a spy but is later arrested and tried in Israel on war crimes.
An American playwright living in pre-World War II Berlin becomes an allied spy within the...
4) Cat's Cradle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb.
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book...
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A fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, an abstract expressionist artist, who acquired the largest collection of abstract expressionist paintings in private hands.
An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier captured by the Germans, witnesses firebombing and destruction in Dresden. Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to Read more... Billy Pilgrim, an American...
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One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut has left an indelible impression on literature with such inventive novels as Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse- Five and Breakfast of Champions. Now this iconic figure shares his often hilarious and always insightful reflections on America, art, politics and life in general. No matter the subject, Vonnegut will have you considering perspectives you may never have regarded. On the creative process:...
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