Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade
Subtitle: a duty-dance with death
By: by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Edition: 25th anniversary ed.
Publisher: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
Other titles: Slaughterhouse-five.; Children's crusade.
Description: "Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "The Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace."
LC copy in dust jacket.
Source: Copyright deposit, Mar. 11, 1994.