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Slaughterhouse-five :  The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death. Cover Image Book Book

Slaughterhouse-five : The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death.

Vonnegut, Kurt. (author.).

Summary:

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.”

Record details

  • ISBN: 0440180295
  • ISBN: 9780440180296
  • ISBN: 0385312083
  • ISBN: 9780385312080
  • ISBN: 0385333846
  • ISBN: 9780385333849
  • ISBN: 0440580293
  • ISBN: 9780440580294
  • Physical Description: 186 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: [New York] : Delacorte Press, [1969]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Seymour Lawrence book."
Subject: Prisoners of war > Fiction.
Children and war > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Science fiction.
War fiction.
Novels.
Fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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500 . ‡a"A Seymour Lawrence book."
520 . ‡aSlaughterhouse-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.”
650 0. ‡aPrisoners of war ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aChildren and war ‡vFiction.
655 7. ‡aHistorical fiction. ‡2lcgft
655 7. ‡aScience fiction. ‡2lcgft
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7404 . ‡aThe children's crusade.
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