Slaughterhouse-five, or The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death
Vonnegut, Kurt2000
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A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "The Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace. Unstuck in time, Billy Pilgrim, Vonnegut's shattered survivor of the Dresden bombing, relives his life over and over again under the gaze of aliens; he comes at last to some understanding of the human comedy. The basis of George Roy's great 1972 film and perhaps the signature student's novel in the 1960's embracing protest and the absurdity of war.
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Author:
Vonnegut, Kurt, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2000.©1969
Collation:
157 pages :: illustrations ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published Great Britain : Jonathan Cape, 1969.
ISBN:
9780099800200 (pbk)978044018029697800998002009780099800200 (pbk)97803853338499780099800200 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
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BRN:
165263
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