Résultats pour "Kurt" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders with an elusive connection to the fifth woman.

Sarah Kuttner hat einen Roman über Trauer geschrieben, über die Kraft, die Menschen entwickeln können und darüber, dass es auf manche Fragen keine Antworten gibt. "Kurt" erzählt auf zarte, humorvolle, vor allem aber unaufgeregte Weise davon, wie man sich wiederfindet nach einem schrecklichen Verlust, und wie man für jemanden da sein kann, der untröstlich ist.

I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone. He came home with the ashes of it and died 20 years later, poor and, as it happened, drunk.

Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat's Cradle is one of this century's most important works...and Vonnegut at his very best.

Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most in-demand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut’s words were unfailingly unique, insightful, and witty, and they stayed with audience members long after graduation. As edited by Dan Wakefield, this book reads like a narrative in the unique voice that made Vonnegut a hero to readers and listeners of all ages. At times hilarious, razor-sharp, freewheeling, and deeply serious, these reflections are ideal for anyone undergoing what Vonnegut would call their "long-delayed puberty ceremony".

All the colorful characters, tropical locations, Florida history, and marine action that listeners and readers have come to expect in the Kurt Hunter Mysteries series. Fans of Wayne Stinnett, Clive Cussler, and John D MacDonald will enjoy this South Florida adventure. A devoted fan writes: “Grab a cold beer and relax while you follow Kurt Hunter. You won’t be sorry!”

Kurt Tucholsky: Seine Texte sind scharf, ironisch, melancholisch, lustig - und brandaktuell, obwohl sie teilweise schon einhundert Jahre alt sind. Das Beste aus den Jahren 1907 - 1932 von dem Mann, der sich so am Thema Deutschland abarbeitete - und dessen Liebe zu seiner Heimat sich zwischen den Zeilen immer zeigte. 249 Glossen, Satiren und Gedichte, geschrieben über den Zeitlauf eines Lebens. Mit dabei: Eine pdf-Datei mit Titelliste.

Get three bestsellers for the price of one. Backwater Bay: When a body is found floating in the mangroves of Biscayne National Park, Special Agent Kurt Hunter has his first real case. Backwater Channel: Kurt is thrown into a rift between warring environmentalists and power-hungry corporate executives all trying to advance their own agendas. Backwater Cove: When agent Hunter finds a woman washed up in Biscayne National Park the case leads him to the world of high rolling boosters and the young players who will do anything to make their mark.

When an officer's murder in Biscayne National Park threatens to expose a corrupt agency, one man is tasked with finding the killer, but he’s running into a wall of organizational conspiracy built to conceal a devious plot. Special Agent Kurt Hunter is fighting to find the truth hidden behind a maze of twisted coworkers and interagency tensions. From the glamorous Intracoastal Waterway of Miami to the natural beauty of Biscayne National Park, this new mystery from best-selling author Steven Becker reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of South Florida.

Sanger Entertainment is more than an event planning business. It covers up many evils for another business, which is more profitable. Kurt is the partner who handles paperwork and running background checks on new members. Feeling the effects of loneliness, Kurt decides to incorporate more women into his life. His style is of a cruel and extreme nature.

Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring one’s faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss. Tokyo, 1938. An amateur quartet, led by the compassionate Yu, gathers to practice. Suddenly, their rehearsal is brutally...

Kurt Tucholsky: Seine Texte sind scharf, ironisch, melancholisch, lustig - und brandaktuell, obwohl sie teilweise schon einhundert Jahre alt sind. Das Beste aus den Jahren 1929 - 1930 von dem Mann, der sich so am Thema Deutschland abarbeitete - und dessen Liebe zu seiner Heimat sich zwischen den Zeilen immer zeigte.

Kurt Tucholsky: Seine Texte sind scharf, ironisch, melancholisch, lustig - und brandaktuell, obwohl sie teilweise schon einhundert Jahre alt sind. Das Beste aus den Jahren 1926-1928 von dem Mann, der sich so am Thema Deutschland abarbeitete - und dessen Liebe zu seiner Heimat sich zwischen den Zeilen immer zeigte.

Eugene Debs Hartke describes an odyssey from college professor to prison inmate to prison warden back again to prisoner in another of Vonnegut's bitter satirical explorations of how and where (and why) the American dream begins to die. Employing his characteristic narrative device - a retrospective diary in which the protagonist retraces his life at its end, a desperate and disconnected series of events here in Hocus Pocus show Vonnegut with his mask off and his rhetorical devices unshielded.

Stacey McKinley doesn't have to love what she does, she just has to do it. She's in Fairhaven to collect from a mark, some sucker who got in way over his head with the wrong people. She and her partner have one job: get the money out of him any way they can. They have come to the wilderness to gain information about his assets by any means necessary. To play her part in this, Stacey will do whatever she has to in order to gain the mark's trust. She did not count on him approaching her. Nor did she expect the chemistry.

It was a crime of senseless violence. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer was bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. As if this didn't present enough problems for Ystad police inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman's last word, his only tangible clue, were foreign. If publicized, they could be the match that would inflame Sweden's already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments.

The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course, there's a catch to the invitation...

Kurt Tucholsky: Seine Texte sind scharf, ironisch, melancholisch, lustig - und brandaktuell, obwohl sie teilweise schon einhundert Jahre alt sind. Das Beste aus den Jahren 1929 - 1930 von dem Mann, der sich so am Thema Deutschland abarbeitete - und dessen Liebe zu seiner Heimat sich zwischen den Zeilen immer zeigte.

Kurt Tucholsky: Seine Texte sind scharf, ironisch, melancholisch, lustig - und brandaktuell, obwohl sie teilweise schon einhundert Jahre alt sind. Das Beste aus den Jahren 1907 - 1916 von dem Mann, der sich so am Thema Deutschland abarbeitete - und dessen Liebe zu seiner Heimat sich zwischen den Zeilen immer zeigte.