Vonnegut, Kurt 1922-2007
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The children's Crusade : a Duty-Dance with Death / Slaughterhouse-five Children's crusade Kurt Vonnegut. - Dial Press trade pbk. ed. - New York : Dial Press ; 2005. - 275 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
"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." (Publisher's Website) "Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great antiwar 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." (Book Cover)
9780385333849 (pbk)
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Free will and determinism--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Science fiction.
War stories.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The children's Crusade : a Duty-Dance with Death / Slaughterhouse-five Children's crusade Kurt Vonnegut. - Dial Press trade pbk. ed. - New York : Dial Press ; 2005. - 275 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
"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." (Publisher's Website) "Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great antiwar 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." (Book Cover)
9780385333849 (pbk)
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Free will and determinism--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Science fiction.
War stories.