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Slaughterhouse
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Country
- US
- Publication Name
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
- Edition
- 25
- Depth
- 20.32mm
- Weight
- 340.1942775g
- Modified Item
- No
- Imprint
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Brand
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
- Series
- Modern Library 100 Best Novels
- Pagination
- 240
- Type
- N/A
- Era
- N/A
- Special Attributes
- N/A
- ISBN-10
- N/A
- Height
- 204.216mm
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Width
- 133.35mm
- ISBN
- 9780385312080
- Book Title
- Slaughterhouse-Five : a Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- War & Military, Satire, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Item Weight
- 12.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
About this product
Product Information
A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, "a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century" ( Time ), featuring a new introduction by Kevin Powers, author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time 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." 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. "Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement." --The Boston Globe
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385312083
ISBN-13
9780385312080
eBay Product ID (ePID)
161934
Product Key Features
Book Title
Slaughterhouse-Five : a Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition
Edition
25
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
War & Military, Satire, Literary
Publication Year
1994
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Item Weight
12.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ps3572.O5s6 1994
Edition Description
Anniversary
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
Copyright Date
1994
Lccn
94-171120
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- 07 Jul, 2007
using innocense to fight wars because no one else will
- 17 Aug, 2007
Why Vonnegut is the new Swift, Pope, or Voltaire....
- 08 Apr, 2023
Slaughterhouse Five is Vonnegut's best!
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- 03 Nov, 2015
Read this years ago, a great read again!
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- 17 Aug, 2021
Vonnegut rocks!
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