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Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse 5

Or the Children's Crusade

Vintage Books (17 Oct 1991)
9780099800200
| Paperback
176 pages | 130 x 193 mm | English
$ 14.99 | Value: $ 14.99
Dewey 813.54

Subject

  • American Fiction
  • Feature Films
  • Time Travel
  • War Films
  • World War, 1939-1945

Plot

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 5is 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.