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Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, the Children's Crusade, A Duty-Dance with Death »

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Authors: Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN-13: 9780440180296, ISBN-10: 0440180295
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: December 1991
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was forever established in the literary pantheon and on the school syllabus with the publication of his brilliant antiwar novel Slaughterhouse-Five, but he endured as a purveyor of mind-warping, surreal fiction that just so happened to be funny.

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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.

The New York Times - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I now, I know (as Kurt Vonnegut used to say when people told him that the Germans attacked first). It sounds crazy. It sounds like a fantastic last-ditch effort to make sense of a lunatic universe. But there is so much more to this book. It is very tough and very funny; it is sad and delightful; and it works. But is also very Vonnegut, which mean you'll either love it, or push it back in the science-fiction corner.

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