Kurt Vonnegut Biography

Slaughterhouse-five: Billy Pilgrim was unstuck in time. It sounds like a fairly conventional time travel story. But this is Kurt Vonnegut, and nothing he wrote was ever conventional. In fact, the...
The Sirens Of Titan: This is the novel in which we first encounter some of the themes and ideas that would later emerge in Slaughterhouse-Five. There are Tralfamadorians, there's the familiar resignation in the...
Cat's Cradle: Cat's Cradle is written in a style that makes me feel like Vonnegut's sitting back with a joint, having a laugh, in on the joke that is life. It reminds...
Galapagos: It was in the isolated environment of the Galapagos Islands that Charles Darwin made the observations that were crucial to the development of his ideas of natural selection, and it...
Slaughterhouse-five: You can not deny the power of Kurt Vonnegut’s pointed satire. Slaughterhouse 5 is not a story of military might, or tactics, or even battles. It’s about what happens to...