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Slaughterhouse-five, or, the children's crusade : a duty-dance with death / by Kurt Vonnegut, a fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "the Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Vonne Slaught
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vonnegut, Kurt, author.
- Series:
- Laurel book
- Standardized Title:
- Slaughterhouse-five
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers--Fiction.
- Soldiers.
- Trout, Kilgore (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Trout, Kilgore (Fictitious character).
- World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Dresden (Germany)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Fiction.
- Dresden (Germany).
- American fiction--20th century.
- American fiction.
- Space flight--Fiction.
- Germany--Dresden.
- Genre:
- War stories.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- History.
- War fiction.
- Satire.
- Physical Description:
- 215 pages ; 18 cm
- Other Title:
- Slaughterhouse-5
- Children's crusade
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Dell Publishing, 1991.
- Summary:
- Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier captured by the Germans, witnesses firebombing and destruction in Dresden. Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. 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.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Tess Galen.
- ISBN:
- 0812417755
- 9780812417753
- 1439501637
- 9781439501634
- 0385333846
- 9780385333849
- 0385312083
- 9780385312080
- 0385289405
- 9780385289405
- 9780099800200
- 0099800209
- 0808514571
- 9780808514572
- 0329058053
- 075877978X
- 9780329058050
- 9780758779786
- OCLC:
- 25219490
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