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Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death

Time-travel meets stark anti-war narrative.

If you're into narratives that challenge conventional storytelling, "Slaughterhouse-Five" is a ride worth taking. Vonnegut's blend of historical truth, satirical humor, and sci-fi elements makes for a deeply poignant statement against war's absurdity. You'll find yourself both amused and heartbroken, often within the same paragraph, which is precisely why it has stood out in literature for decades.

  • Hugo Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1970)
  • Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1969)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1970)
  • Chicago Publishers' Award (1970)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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ISBN: 9780440180296
Authors: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Publisher: Dell
Date of Publication: 1991-11-03
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Related Topics: World War II, Science Fiction, Classics, Time Travel, Science Fiction Fantasy, War
Goodreads rating: 4.1
(rated by 1451517 readers)

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, 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
 

Time-travel meets stark anti-war narrative.

If you're into narratives that challenge conventional storytelling, "Slaughterhouse-Five" is a ride worth taking. Vonnegut's blend of historical truth, satirical humor, and sci-fi elements makes for a deeply poignant statement against war's absurdity. You'll find yourself both amused and heartbroken, often within the same paragraph, which is precisely why it has stood out in literature for decades.

  • Hugo Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (1970)
  • Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1969)
  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1970)
  • Chicago Publishers' Award (1970)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.