Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

MOTHER NIGHT
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr

MOTHER NIGHT is a story with morals, three in fact, but it's not really a moral book. From a ratty attic to Auschwitz and back, it's the confessions of Howard W. Campbell Jr, and he was hardly a moral man. He was American, a notorious Nazi propagandist, and a US counter-spy. Then there was that business with his wife and her sister which proved that one man's morals can be another woman's poison...

Published in 1973 by Panther Books Ltd, 3 Upper James Street, London W1R 4BP

First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape 1968

© Kurt Vonnegut Jr, 1961, 1966

SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

Billy Pilgrim, billeted as a prisoner of war in a Dresden slaughterhouse, survives the worst holocaust of World War II.

Billy Pilgrim, kidnapped by the small green inhabitants of the planet Tralfamadore, is displayed naked in a zoo and publicly mated with the beautiful Earthling movie star Montana Wildhack.

Billy Pilgrim, time-traveller, finally comes to understand the nature of death (and life) and returns radiant to Earth to preach his startling message.

Billy Pilgrim is the hero of this inspired novel by one of America's most brilliant modern authors.

Published by Triad Grafton 1979
This edition 1986

First published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1970

© Kurt Vonnegut 1969

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