Launched in November, Dell\'s Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world\'s great anti-war books.
More than fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut\'s portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD. 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.
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.
Kurt Vonnegut\'s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century (Time).
Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim\'s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Launched in November, Dell\'s Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world\'s great anti-war books
