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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition
Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history--the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal of money as an optometrist, and on his wedding night he is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. So begins a modern classic by a master storyteller.
Book Details
- Publisher: Modern Library
- Publish Date: Feb 1st, 1994
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: Anniversary - 0025
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.20in - 0.84in - 0.80lb
- EAN: 9780385312080
- Categories: • Classics• Literary• Satire
About the Author
Kurt Vonnegut's humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" (The New York Times) with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, "one of the best living American writers." Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
Praise for this book
"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."--The 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