Palm Sunday

by Kurt Vonnegut

Published 18 June 1981
Kurt Vonnegut, described by Graham Greene as "One of the best living American writers", is equally well known as an essayist and commentator on American society as he is as a novelist. This volume brings together the best of his shorter work - essays, stories, speeches, letters, articles and autobiography.

Deadeye Dick

by Kurt Vonnegut

Published 1 January 1981

Rudy Waltz hasn't had it easy. After accidentally committing manslaughter at the age of twelve, the traumas life continued to throw at him seemed almost inconsequential.

Now fifty-four, an expat living in Haiti, he's reliving the harrowing moments of his life that have left him in his current disillusioned state. But perhaps his ancestors, among them a father who was an unwitting patron of Adolf Hitler, have predestined him for the mad life he's lead.
 
In Deadeye Dick Vonnegut expertly probes the ties between generations, and questions the conventional notions of morality.
 
‘Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer … a zany but moral mad scientist’ Time
‘The master at his quirky, provocative best’ Cosmopolitan