Slaughterhouse-Five
Language: English
Publisher: The Dial Press
Published: Jan 1, 1969
Date Read:
Feb 1, 2007
Form:
Novel
Pages:
187
Read Status:
read
Shelves:
read
Word Count:
49758
Book Details
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Description:
**Slaughterhous-Five** is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black 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" 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. “Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement.”—*Boston Globe *Very tough and very funny . . . sad and delightful . . . very Vonnegut.”—*New York Times *“Splendid art . . . a funny book at which you are not permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears.”—*Life *