Items related to Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th Anniversary Edition...
Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history--the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal of money as an optometrist, and on his wedding night he is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. So begins a modern classic by a master storyteller.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review:
It took Vonnegut more than 20 years to put his Dresden experiences into words. He explained, "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again." Slaughterhouse Five is a powerful novel incorporating a number of genres. Only those who have fought in wars can say whether it represents the experience well. However, what the novel does do is invite the reader to look at the absurdity of war. Human versus human, hedonist politicians pressing buttons and ordering millions to their deaths all for ideologies many cannot even comprehend. Flicking between the US, 1940's Germany and Tralfamadore, Vonnegut's semi- autobiographical protagonist Billy Pilgrim finds himself very lost. One minute he is being viewed as a specimen in a Tralfamadorian Zoo, the next he is wandering a post-apocalyptic city looking for corpses. Slaughterhouse Five-Or The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance with Death is a remarkable blend of black humour, irony, the truth and the absurd. The author regards his work a "failure", millions of readers do not. Released the same time bombs were falling on South East Asia, this title caused controversy and awakening. Essential reading for all. So it goes. --Jon Smith
Review:
"Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement."--The Boston Globe "Very tough and very funny . . . sad and delightful . . . very Vonnegut."--The New York Times "Splendid . . . a funny book at which you are not permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears."--Life "Funny, satirical, compelling, outrageous, fanciful, mordant, fecund . . . 'It's too good to be science fiction, ' [the critics] would say. But Vonnegut doesn't care, and you won't care, either, because this is a writer who leaps over genres."--Los Angeles Times
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherModern Library
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0385312083
- ISBN 13 9780385312080
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
- Rating
Other Popular Editions of the Same Title
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th anniversary edition
Published by
Modern Library
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0385312083
ISBN 13: 9780385312080
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 10
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Brand new, pristine condition book offering a fresh and immersive reading experience, ready to captivate any reader from the very first page. Seller Inventory # 249
Buy New
£ 15.93
Convert currency
Seller Image
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (25th Anniversary) (Modern Library 100 Best Novels) by Vonnegut, Kurt [Hardcover ]
Published by
Delacorte Press
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0385312083
ISBN 13: 9780385312080
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 10
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9780385312080
Buy New
£ 15.99
Convert currency
Stock Image
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Published by
Modern Library
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0385312083
ISBN 13: 9780385312080
New
Hardcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!. Seller Inventory # OTF-S-9780385312080
Buy New
£ 13.83
Convert currency
Stock Image
Slaughterhouse-Five Format: Hardcover
Published by
Penguin Random House
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0385312083
ISBN 13: 9780385312080
New
Hardcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Brand New. Seller Inventory # 9780385312080
Buy New
£ 13.90
Convert currency
Seller Image
Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty Dance with Death (25th Anniversary) (Hardback or Cased Book)
Published by
Delacorte Press 2/1/1994
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0385312083
ISBN 13: 9780385312080
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 5
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty Dance with Death (25th Anniversary) 0.78. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9780385312080
Buy New
£ 17.18
Convert currency
Stock Image
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Published by
Modern Library
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0385312083
ISBN 13: 9780385312080
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 2
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # BKZN9780385312080
Buy New
£ 18.57
Convert currency
Stock Image
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th anniversary edition
Published by
Modern Library
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0385312083
ISBN 13: 9780385312080
New
Hardcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Brand New!. Seller Inventory # 0385312083
Buy New
£ 19.14
Convert currency
Stock Image
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th anniversary edition
Published by
Modern Library
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0385312083
ISBN 13: 9780385312080
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 16
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Feb2215580169879
Buy New
£ 16.72
Convert currency
Seller Image
Slaughterhouse-Five (Hardcover)
Published by
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc, New York
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0385312083
ISBN 13: 9780385312080
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A special fiftieth anniversary edition of Kurt Vonneguts 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 worlds 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 barbers 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 Vonneguts writingthe political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive witthat 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 OBrien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonneguts words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as the kind of writer who made peopleyoung people especiallywant 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, Vonneguts portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own eras uncertainties. A new preface by the author highlights this 25th anniversary edition of Vonnegut's classic and supremely unconventional World War II novel. Based on Vonnegut's experiences as a POW, this anti-war novel tells the story of chaplain's assistant Billy Pilgrim. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780385312080
Buy New
£ 20.08
Convert currency
Stock Image
Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel; 50th anniversary edition
Published by
Modern Library
(1994)
ISBN 10: 0385312083
ISBN 13: 9780385312080
New
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. . Seller Inventory # 52GZZZ00QL7J_ns
Buy New
£ 20.18
Convert currency