The Writer's Crusade : Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roston, Tom.

Series:

Books about Bks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-traumatic stress disorder in literature.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.

Art appreciation.

Authors, American.

Slaughterhouse-five (Vonnegut, Kurt).

Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-five.

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Vonnegut, Kurt--Appreciation.

Medical Subjects:

Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.

Genre:

Biographies.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Writer's Crusade

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Abrams, Inc., 2021.

Summary:

The story of Kurt Vonnegut and his beloved masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, a novel born in the destruction of Dresden in World War II and written during the tumultuous days of VietnamDuring the Vietnam War, Kurt Vonnegut, after surviving the horrors of Dresden as a POW during World War II, would lose his temper while watching the nightly news, point at the screen and shout, "The liars!" According to his family and friends, Slaughterhouse-Fivewas Vonnegut's attempt to exorcize his demons. "He was writing to save his own life," his daughter Nanette has said, "and in doing it I think he has saved a lot of lives."Tom Roston's The Writer's Crusade is a book about how books save lives. Two decades after World War II had ended, Vonnegut's sixth book became a significant part of a vital storytelling tradition that has eased the trauma of war for both the writer and the reader. Although Slaughterhouse-Five was championed by the anti-war movement, it became a bulwark for veterans who found in its pages a voice that spoke to them with an intimate, shared understanding of wartime PTSD.Mixing together the story of Vonnegut's life, the writing and publishing of his most enduring work, and forays into the experiences of soldiers and writers today--people who have made the novel a touchstone in their lives--The Writer's Crusade is built on research into Vonnegut's life, from papers and interviews with his children, scholars, psychologists, and writers, including Tim O'Brien, Kevin Powers, and Karl Marlantes. This will be a captivating book for fans of Vonnegut and anyone touched by war and its aftermath.

Contents:

Kurt Vonnegut, Nazi slayer!

Slaughterhouse-five and the PTSD prism

The road to Dresden

Onwards and upwards

Writing Slaughterhouse-five, or, This lousy little book

A reading of Slaughterhouse-five, or, Stopping a glacier

What really happened to Vonnegut in World War II, or, The war parts, anyway

A history of war trauma

A PTSD primer and an infinite jester

What's wrong with Billy?

Diagnosing Mr. Vonnegut

Kurt, after the crusade

Slaughterhouse-five's place in history (despite that whole timelessness thing)

One last joke

Author note

A non-Tralfamadorian timeline of Vonnegut's life.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781683359241

1683359240

OCLC:

1283846180