Slaughterhouse 5

Vintage Classics

By: Kurt Vonnegut

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Paperback | 1 June 1991 | Edition Number 1

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Paperback
192 Pages

Age
14 - 18

Grade
10 - 12

Dimensions(cm)
20 x 13 x 1

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One of the very best anti-war novels ever written

Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books.

Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

Industry Reviews

"Marvellous...the writing is pungent, the antics uproarious, the wit as sharp as a hypodermic needle"
Daily Telegraph

"A laughing prophet of doom"
New York Times

"Mr Vonnegut knows a great deal about what is probably the largest massacre in modern history - the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945. Slaughterhouse Five is a reaction to the event by one of our most gifted and incisive novelists. A work of keen literary artistry"
Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22

"An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist"
New York Times Book Review

"Agonising, funny. His eloquent concern transforms something as pedestrian as a war movie seen back to front into a vision which, in its weird way, is as effecting as any short passage ever written against war"
Time magazine

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