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Kurt Vonnegut: The Complete Novels

A Library of America Boxed Set

Edited by Sidney Offit
Boxed Set (Hardcover)
$155.00 US
5.35"W x 8.5"H x 5.15"D   | 96 oz | 2 per carton
On sale Oct 04, 2016 | 3317 Pages | 9781598535099

The ultimate Vonnegut: all 14 novels plus a selection of the best of his stories in a definitive collector's boxed set.

The novels of Kurt Vonnegut defined a generation a remain among the most enduringly popular and influential works of the last century. Now, for the first time, they are available in a single collector's edition, featuring authoritative annotated texts. This boxed set includes four Library of America volumes:

Novels & Stories 1950-1962
Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night

Novels & Stories 1963-1973
Cat's Cradle / God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions

Novels 1976-1985
Slapstick / Jailbird / Deadeye Dick / Galapagos

Novels 1987-1997
Bluebeard / Hocus Pocus / Timequake

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
"This is likely the most attractive edition of Vonnegut you'll ever own." — Gary K. Wolfe, Locus Magazine
Sidney Offit, editor of the Library of America's four-volume Kurt Vonnegut edition, has written novels, books for young readers, and memoirs including, most recently, Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen. He was senior editor of Intellectual Digest, book editor of Politics Today, and contributing editor of Baseball Magazine. He wrote the foreword to Look at the Birdie, a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s unpublished short fiction.

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The ultimate Vonnegut: all 14 novels plus a selection of the best of his stories in a definitive collector's boxed set.

The novels of Kurt Vonnegut defined a generation a remain among the most enduringly popular and influential works of the last century. Now, for the first time, they are available in a single collector's edition, featuring authoritative annotated texts. This boxed set includes four Library of America volumes:

Novels & Stories 1950-1962
Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night

Novels & Stories 1963-1973
Cat's Cradle / God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions

Novels 1976-1985
Slapstick / Jailbird / Deadeye Dick / Galapagos

Novels 1987-1997
Bluebeard / Hocus Pocus / Timequake

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Praise

"This is likely the most attractive edition of Vonnegut you'll ever own." — Gary K. Wolfe, Locus Magazine

Author

Sidney Offit, editor of the Library of America's four-volume Kurt Vonnegut edition, has written novels, books for young readers, and memoirs including, most recently, Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen. He was senior editor of Intellectual Digest, book editor of Politics Today, and contributing editor of Baseball Magazine. He wrote the foreword to Look at the Birdie, a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s unpublished short fiction.

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