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Slaughterhouse-Five

By Kurt Vonnegut

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Slaughterhouse-Five

By Kurt Vonnegut

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"A desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century."-Time Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American POW. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber's son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming "unstuck in time." Praise for Slaughterhouse-Five "Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement."-The Boston Globe "Very tough and very funny . . . sad and delightful . . . very Vonnegut."-New York Times "Splendid . . . a funny book at which you are not permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears."-Life "Funny, satirical, compelling, outrageous, fanciful, mordant, fecund . . . 'It's too good to be science fiction,' [the critics] would say. But Vonnegut doesn't care, and you won't care, either, because this is a writer who leaps over genres."-Los Angeles Times
Product details
Edition:
25
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
1994-02-01
Publication Date:
1994-02-01
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0385312083
ISBN13:
9780385312080
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
354 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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