Slaughterhouse 5
Vintage Classics Most Red Series
Published in 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-78487-595-4 (ISBN)
Description
MOST LOVED. MOST RED. Ten must-read modern classics.
'So it goes.'
Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier-- - has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?
Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.
'So it goes.'
Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier-- - has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?
Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.
Reviews / Votes
Marvellous...the writing is pungent, the antics uproarious, the humour suitably black, the wit sharp as a hypodermic * Daily Telegraph * Mr Vonnegut knows a great deal about what is probably the largest massacre in modern history - the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945. Slaughterhouse Five is a reaction to the event by one of our most gifted and incisive novelists. A work of keen literary artistry -- Joseph Heller, author of 'Catch-22' The individuality of Vonnegut's style is a curious yet perfect match for the pain of the emotional content. A humane, human book that always remains a work of art rather than biography, no matter how apparent the author's presence -- Kate Atkinson Unique...one of the writers who map our landscapes for us, who give names to the places we know best -- Doris Lessing Funny, satirical, compelling, outrageous, fanciful, mordant, fecund and at the bottom-line, simply stoned-out-of-its-mind * Los Angeles Times *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 129 mm
Weight
154 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78487-595-4 (9781784875954)
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Person
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel, Player Piano (1952), achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'. His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five, was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut was the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.