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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1969 5th Printing Delta Paperback

Description: SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1969 5th Printing Delta Paperback Very good condition. Cover is clean with mild shelf wear. Spine is stiff. Page edges are clean. Sticker on spine. No writing, torn, missing or loose pages. See photos for more details. Critical Insights Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 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 satire 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 destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.” 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. 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. Fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut's portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.

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Book Title: Slaughterhouse-Five

Signed: No

Book Series: Critical Insights

Ex Libris: No

Narrative Type: Fiction

Publisher: Delta

Original Language: English

Intended Audience: Adults

Inscribed: No

Edition: First Edition

Vintage: Yes

Personalize: No

Publication Year: 1969

Type: Novel

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Literary Movement: Modernism, Post-Modernism

Era: 1960s

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Personalized: No

Genre: World literature & Classics, Modern & Contemporary, Science Fiction

Topic: Fantasy, War, Satire

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Number of Pages: 186

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