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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780440180296 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Take a trip with Billy Pilgrim
- To the cellar of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, a city about to be destroyed by the greatest man-made catastrophe of all time.
- To happy marriage and mating with the sweet and willing daughter of one of the finest citizens of Ilium, New York
- To a luxurious zoo on the planet Trafalmadore for the public exhibition of lovemaking with the famous Earthling blue-moviestar, Montana Wildhack
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing 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.
Review:
"Highly imaginative, nearly psychedelic....It is very tough and very funny; it is sad and delightful; it is very Vonnegut; and it works." The New York Times
Review:
"Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. has written one of the major novels of the year....Haunting....Irresistible reading....Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement." Boston Globe
Review:
"Splendid art and simplicity....Nerve-racking control....A funny book at which you are not permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears, a tale told in a slaughterhouse." Life magazine
Synopsis:
"Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing 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.
About the Author
Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titanin 1959 and established him as 'a true artist' with Cat's Cradlein 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, 'one of the best living American writers.'
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Leutchik, July 5, 2008 (view all comments by Leutchik)
I understand that Vonnegut went through the firebombing of Dresden. But what of Hitler and Stalin and Tojo and Pol Pot and Idi Amin? What would Vonnegut say the right thing to do is when in the path of these murderous maniacs? Stand by passively and mute while tens of millions are enslaved and murdered? And if you do, what does that say about what it is to be 'human'? To accept your fate meekly; that's what SHEEP do, as they are lead to the slaughterhouse. For the passive, slaughterhouses without NUMBER! People who live in the theoretical, in their head, will always imagine worlds of universal peace and harmony. But THIS world has never worked that way.
It's all well and good to deplore the killing and the waste, but those who will not resist tyranny, murder and enslavement have already surrendered their humanity.
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pennswoodsed, July 29, 2007 (view all comments by pennswoodsed)
It is vital that such books be BANNED! How can we continue to patriotically take our culture to others with books like this?
I say it is vital because the books might not get the attention they(the books) or we( the patriots)deserve.
It is a generation since this book and the last major military boondoggle(Vietnam)were published.
History proves that man learns nothing.This book is brillianty written,but sometimes hard to read on many levels.All worthwhile things are worth the difficulty.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780440180296
- Subtitle:
- Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Company
- Location:
- New York, N.Y. :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- World war, 1939-1945
- Subject:
- Classics
- Subject:
- World War, 19
- Copyright:
- 1968
- Edition Number:
- 1st Laurel ed.
- Large Print:
- Y
- Series Volume:
- 95
- Publication Date:
- November 1991
- Binding:
- Mass Market Paperbound
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 6.92x4.23x.61 in. .24 lbs.
