Slaughterhouse-Five A Novel; 50th anniversary edition

Kurt Vonnegut, Kevin Powers

eBook - 2009

A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds 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 satir...e 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...

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Published
Random House Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Authors
Kurt Vonnegut, Kevin Powers
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size2 GB
ISBN9780440339069
Release Date8/11/2009
Kindle Book
ASINB000SEGHT6
Release Date8/11/2009
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780440339069
Release Date8/11/2009