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Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death -- Kurt

Description: 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 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, Bill Book and Mortar Record Store Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death -- Kurt Vonnegut 16.86 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 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. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming "unstuck in time." An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut's writing--the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit--that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O'Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut's words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as "the kind of writer who made people--young people especially--want to write." George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be "the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves." More than fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era's uncertainties. Author: Kurt Vonnegut Publisher: Dial Press Published: 01/12/1999 Pages: 288 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.47lbs Size: 8.04h x 5.26w x 0.63d ISBN: 9780385333849 Accelerated Reader: Reading Level: 6 Point Value: 8 Interest Level: Upper Grade Quiz #/Name: 16724 / Slaughterhouse-Five About the Author Kurt Vonnegut's 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" (The New York Times) 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.

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Artist: Vonnegut, Kurt

Record Label: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Release Title: Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Genre 1: Books,Subjects,Literature & Fiction,Classics

Label: Dial Press Trade Paperback

Album: Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Book Title: Slaughterhouse-Five : a Novel

Number of Pages: 288 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Publication Year: 1999

Topic: War & Military, Satire, Literary

Item Height: 0.6 in

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 7.2 Oz

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Item Length: 7.9 in

Book Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels Ser.

Item Width: 5.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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