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Slaughterhouse
by Vonnegut, Kurt | PB | Acceptable
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0440180295
- Book Title
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Item Length
- 6.9in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1991
- Format
- Mass Market
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- War & Military, General, Satire, Literary
- Item Width
- 4.1in
- Item Weight
- 4.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0440180295
ISBN-13
9780440180296
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1086167
Product Key Features
Book Title
Slaughterhouse-Five
Format
Mass Market
Language
English
Topic
War & Military, General, Satire, Literary
Publication Year
1991
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
4.1in
Weight
3.8 Oz
Item Weight
4.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3572.O5
Publication Date
1991-11-03
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 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
Copyright Date
1969
Lccn
69-011929
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Modern Library 100 Best Novels Ser., Modern Library 100 Best Novels
Dewey Edition
22
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