Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death : a novel /
A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece Slaughterhouse-five, featuring a new foreword by Kevin Powers. An American classic, and one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of wh...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Modern Library, an imprint of Random House,
[2019].
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| Summary: | A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece Slaughterhouse-five, featuring a new foreword by Kevin Powers. An American classic, and 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." |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780385312080 0385312083 |