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Kurt Vonnegut

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Scope:  Kurt Vonnegut, a 20th Century writer is known for his anti-technology and anti-machine themes. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1967. His novel Cats Cradle published in 1963 received critical acclaim. Many of his novels have been adapted for film.

CIRCULATING COLLECTION

Books of Kurt Vonneguts works are listed in the Baddour Library online catalog under Vonnegut, Kurt and under individual titles, i.e. Slaughterhouse-Five, etc.

Books written by and about Kurt Vonnegut have the call number(s) : PS3572.05
PS3572.06

Some representative books that are located upstairs in the circulating collection are:

Klinkowitz, Jerome. Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.

CRITICAL SOURCES

There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic.

REF PR 821.C71991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction

REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vols. 2,8 American Novelists Since World War II; Twentieth-Century American Science-Fiction Writers

REF PN 771.M# 1991 Major 20th Century Writers Vol. 4

REF PS 94.M34 1993 Masterpieces of American Literature

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

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WEB SITES

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu

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Updated 02/08/2007