A new preface by the author highlights this 25th anniversary edition of Vonnegut\'s classic and supremely unconventional World War II novel.
More than fifty years after its initial publication at the height of th. a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves. . .
George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us .
Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as the kind of writer who made people--young people especially--want to write.
Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut\'s words.
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Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O\'Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J.
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 readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it.
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.
Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming unstuck in time.
As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW.
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.
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.
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.
Based on Vonnegut\'s experiences as a POW, this anti-war novel tells the story of chaplain\'s assistant Billy Pilgrim.
A new preface by the author highlights this 25th anniversary edition of Vonnegut\'s classic and supremely unconventional World War II novel
