Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th anniversary edition

Author:   Kurt Vonnegut ,  Kevin Powers
Publisher:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Edition:   Anniversary edition
ISBN:  

9780385312080


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 February 1994
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th anniversary edition


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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.” More than 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.

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Author:   Kurt Vonnegut ,  Kevin Powers
Publisher:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Imprint:   Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Edition:   Anniversary edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.357kg
ISBN:  

9780385312080


ISBN 10:   0385312083
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 February 1994
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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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


Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement. -- Boston Globe<br><br> Very tough and very funny . . . sad and delightful . . . very Vonnegut. -- New York Times<br><br> Splendid art . . . a funny book at which you are not permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears. -- Life<br> <br><br><br> 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.


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Kurt Vonnegut’s humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist” (The New York Times) with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.

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