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Slaughterhouse-Five
Synopsis
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” ( Time ).
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • One of The Atlantic ’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Slaughterhouse-Five , an American classic, is 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 prisoner of war.
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.…
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