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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut is a trade paperback published by Random House Publishing Group in 1999. It is a modernist literary work that falls under the fiction genre. The book is part of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels series and has 288 pages. The story revolves around the experiences of a soldier during World War II and is a satirical take on war and military.

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Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is "a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century" ( Time ). Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time * One of The Atlantic 's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years 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.

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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385333846
ISBN-13
9780385333849
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Book Title
Slaughterhouse-Five : a Novel
Author
Kurt Vonnegut
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
War & Military, Satire, Literary
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
7.6 Oz

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"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, "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
Copyright Date
1969
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Ser.

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5 out of 5 stars
by rypcord-bdkAug 16, 2007
Why Vonnegut is the new Swift, Pope, or Voltaire....
Slaughterhouse-Five is in the Top 10 of all-time American novels. It is possibly Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s greatest piece of work - which is saying something, considering all of his other great novels (Cat's Cradle, Timequake, Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, Sirens of a Titan, and Player Piano/Utopia 14). The story of Billy Pilgrim - the story of Vonnegut, much like parts of Mother Night, Timequake, Palm Sunday, and other bits and pieces of Vonnegut's works - part fiction/part-autobiography; and this is why we love him. This is why we adore him. This is why he is the king of satire. I recommend it to every person who ever asks me for a novel to read. Just as a recommend many of Vonnegut's other works; but this is always the first I recommend. It works on the levels of satire, on humanity, on emotion, on utter dependence upon one's own mind, a weakening mind - as is all of ours in their own way. Vonnegut shows us what life is, from the lowliest of times, to the greatest of times, and teaches us to take it all in with a bit of humility. And we learn to do so - and like it.Read full review
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by fpt_2000Sep 02, 2006
Slaughterhouse Five the Children's Crusade
We purchased this book because of it's significance in American literature. Neither my husband nor I had read it. Vonnegut's writing style makes you want to laugh, but the content makes you want to cry. This should be a staple in every reader's collection. You'll have a hard time putting it down.
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by ooK_EsMZSbS@Del...Jul 20, 2017
Grandson had it for required summer reading. He enjoyed it.
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by digmeisterJul 19, 2023
A classic work of fiction for a low, used priced.
Good novel on the cheap!
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by kkaaaNov 19, 2019
good novel
take too long to get the book.
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Modern Library 100 Best Novels Ser.: Slaughterhouse-Five : A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut (1999, Trade Paperback)

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