by Kurt Vonnegut
Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal of money as an optometrist, and on his wedding night he is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. So begins a modern classic by a master storyteller.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt
Kurt Vonnegut’s humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist” (The New York Times) with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
ISBN-13: 9780385333849
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/12/1999
Series: Modern Library 100 Best Novels
Edition description: Reprinted Edition
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)BISAC Categories:
Books - Fiction | Classics
Books - Fiction | Literary
Books - Fiction | Satire
Books - Fiction | War & Military
-World War, 1939-1945 -Historical fiction
-Science fiction -Free will and determinism
-War fiction
- Chronological Period | 1900-1949
- Chronological Period | 1940's
- Cultural Region | Germany
- Catalog Heading | Classics
- Curriculum Strand | Language Arts/Literature
OCLC Number: OCLC#62885771