num_pages: 192
description: The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five an American classic is one of the worlds great anti-war books. An American classic and one of the worlds seminal antiwar books Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!). Listen: Billy Pilgrim has... ...read Kilgore Trout ...opened a successful optometry business ...built a loving family ...witnessed the firebombing of Dresden ...traveled to the planet Tralfamadore ...met Kurt Vonnegut ...come unstuck in time. Billy Pilgrims journey is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes) and a moving examination of what it means to be fallibly human. 
language: English
title: Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade
publisher: Archaia