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Modern Library 100 Best Novels: Slaughterhouse-Five : Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death (Paperback)
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- Literary Classic: Recognized by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time and an American classic.
- Authorial Masterpiece: Kurt Vonnegut's acclaimed work, resulting from a 23-year effort to document his WWII experiences.
- Genre Blending: Combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in its narrative.
- Thematic Focus: Centers on the World War II firebombing of Dresden and explores themes of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety.
- Character Journey: Follows Billy Pilgrim, a barber's son who becomes a draftee, optometrist, and alien abductee, experiencing time travel.
- Cultural Impact: An instant bestseller that established Kurt Vonnegut as a cult hero, inspiring generations of writers and readers.
- Physical Attributes: A paperback edition with 224 pages, authored by Kurt Vonnegut, ISBN 9780440180296.
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- GenreLiterature & Fiction
- Pub date19911103
- Pages224
- Reading levelGeneral, 14-18
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - 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.
- Modern Library 100 Best Novels: Slaughterhouse-Five : Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death (Paperback)
- Author: Kurt Vonnegut
- ISBN: 9780440180296
- Book Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
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Slaughterhouse Five!
Had not read this since High School...1969 Still just as disturbing as then the Bombing of Dresden By conventional bombs took more lives than Hiroshima...think about that...
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