Slaughterhouse-five, or The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death
Vonnegut, Kurt2000
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| GLADESVILLE | ADULT FICTION | F VONNClassics | Onloan - Due: 28 Apr 2026 |
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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London : Vintage, 2000.
Collation:
157 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
"A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "The Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace". -- t.p.Originally published Great Britain : Jonathan Cape, 1970
ISBN:
9780099800200 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
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BRN:
265809
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLADESVILLE | ADULT FICTION | F VONNClassics | Onloan - Due: 28 Apr 2026 |