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Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Vonnegut, Kurt
Summary
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1969 semi-autobiographical, anti-war novel that blends science fiction, satire, and dark humor to explore the trauma of war, particularly the firebombing of Dresden, through the non-linear life of protagonist Billy Pilgrim, who becomes "unstuck in time" after being abducted by aliens.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s 1969 semi-autobiographical, anti-war novel that blends science fiction, satire, and dark humor to explore the trauma of war, particularly the firebombing of Dresden, through the non-linear life of protagonist Billy Pilgrim, who becomes "unstuck in time" after being abducted by aliens.
Highlights
- Easy to enjoy: 224 pages · Mass_market
- By Vonnegut, Kurt
Details
- ISBN: 9780440180296
- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Format: Mass_market
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Publication date: 3 November 1991
- Condition: Used – Very Good
- Rating: 4.00 (47 reviews)
Reviews
Average rating: 4.00/5 · 47 reviews
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 prisoner of war.
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