Slaughterhouse 5 (Vintage Past)

Author(s): Kurt Vonnegut

Classics

Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

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Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of war in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.

General Fields

  • : 9781784871345
  • : Vintage Publishing
  • : Vintage Classics
  • : 0.3
  • : October 2016
  • : 17.80 cmmm X 11.00 cmmm X 1.30 cmmm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : December 2016
  • : May 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Kurt Vonnegut
  • : Paperback
  • : 1216
  • : en
  • : 813
  • : 157