Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death

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Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. "Slaughterhouse 5" is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

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One of the very best anti-war novels ever written

Author description

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. He died in 2007.

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General Fields

• ISBN : 9780099800200
• Publisher : Vintage
• Imprint : Vintage
• Publication date : October 1991
• Dimensions : 197mm X 131mm X 12mm
• Produced in : United Kingdom
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 192
• Dewey classification : 813.54
• Edition : New edition
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Kurt Vonnegut