The Brothers Vonnegut - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Brothers Vonnegut write by Ginger Strand. This book was released on 2015-11-17. The Brothers Vonnegut available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 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 the "New Super Weapon." But when the army takes charge of his cloud-seeding project (dubbed Project Cirrus), Bernard begins to have misgivings about the harmful uses of his inventions, not to mention the evidence that they are causing alarming changes in the atmosphere. In a fascinating cultural history, Ginger Strand 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.
Slapstick or Lonesome No More!
Slapstick or Lonesome No More! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slapstick or Lonesome No More! write by Kurt Vonnegut. This book was released on 1999-05-11. Slapstick or Lonesome No More! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Some of the best and most moving Vonnegut.”—San Francisco Chronicle Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today’s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce—a final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us all. “Both funny and sad . . . just about perfect.”—Los Angeles Times “Imaginative and hilarious . . . a brilliant vision of our wrecked, wacked-out future.”—Hartford Courant
Mother Night
Mother Night - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mother Night write by Kurt Vonnegut. This book was released on 2009-08-11. Mother Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer . . . a zany but moral mad scientist.”—Time Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with true gallows humor, Vonnegut turns black and white into a chilling shade of gray with a verdict that will haunt us all. “A great artist.”—Cincinnati Enquirer “A shaking up in the kaleidoscope of laughter . . . Reading Vonnegut is addictive!”—Commonweal
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut write by Kurt Vonnegut. This book was released on 1988. Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gathers interviews with Vonnegut from each period of his career and offers a brief profile of his life and accomplishments.
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Palm Sunday write by Kurt Vonnegut. This book was released on 2009-09-30. Palm Sunday available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “[Kurt Vonnegut] is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth. “Vonnegut is at the top of his form, and it is wonderful.”—Newsday
