Slaughterhouse-Five [electronic resource] : or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
Vonnegut, Kurt2003
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Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes "unstuck in time" after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.
Slaughterhouse-Five is not only Vonnegut's most powerful book, it is also as important as any written since 1945. Like Catch-22, it fashions the author's experiences in the Second World War into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority. Slaughterhouse-Five boasts the same imagination, humanity, and gleeful appreciation of the absurd found in Vonnegut's other works, but the book's basis in rock-hard, tragic fact gives it unique poignancy - and humor.
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Author:
Vonnegut, Kurt, AuthorHawke, Ethan, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins, 2003
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Awards:
Hugo Award Nominee (World Science Fiction Society)
ISBN:
9780060735555
Language:
English
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BRN:
2835699
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