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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100385312083
ISBN-139780385312080
eBay Product ID (ePID)161934
Product Key Features
Edition25
Book TitleSlaughterhouse-Five : a Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWar & Military, Satire, Literary
Publication Year1994
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-171120
Reviews"Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement."- Boston Globe Very tough and very funny . . . sad and delightful . . . very Vonnegut."- New York Times "Splendid art . . . a funny book at which you are not permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears."- Life From the Trade Paperback edition., "Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement."-Boston Globe Very tough and very funny . . . sad and delightful . . . very Vonnegut."-New York Times "Splendid art . . . a funny book at which you are not permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears."-Life From the Trade Paperback edition., "Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement."- Boston Globe Very tough and very funny . . . sad and delightful . . . very Vonnegut."- New York Times "Splendid art . . . a funny book at which you are not permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears."- Life
Edition DescriptionAnniversary
SynopsisA special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, "a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century" ( Time ), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time 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. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O'Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut's words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as "the kind of writer who made people--young people especially--want to write." George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be "the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves." 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. "Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement." --The Boston Globe, A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, "a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century" ( Time ), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time 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. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O'Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut's words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as "the kind of writer who made people--young people especially--want to write." George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be "the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves." More than 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.
LC Classification NumberPS3572.O5S6 1994
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- 07. Apr. 2023
Slaughterhouse Five is Vonnegut's best!
I read this book years ago but you get something different from it when you are older. Kurt Vonnegut is such a fantastic writer..Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 03. Nov. 2015
Read this years ago, a great read again!
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- 28. Mai. 2024
Bombs make one crazy.
The Ultimate anti-war novel, delving into effects of PTSD on war veterans.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 16. Aug. 2021
Vonnegut rocks!
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- 16. Apr. 2025
Great shape...
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- 06. Jun. 2017
Appreciate it!
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