Slaughterhouse-Five
The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war 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.
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American science fiction, bombing of Dresden, Open Library staff picks, military fiction, war stories, World War II, World War, 1939-1945, literature and the war, war, free will and determinism, literary fiction, Fiction, Animals, Boats and boating, Juvenile fiction, Accelerated Reader, Domestic animals, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Fiction, war & military, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Classic Literature, Drama, Vonnegut, kurt, 1922-2007, American literature, history and criticism, Destruction and pillage, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Roman américain, Literature, American literature, Literatură americană, Roman, Time travel, Voyages dans le temps, Romans, nouvelles, Science fictionPeople
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Slaughterhouse-Five: The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death
2005, Dial Press
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Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death
1991, Vintage
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First Sentence
"ALL THIS HAPPENED, more or less."
Edition 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."
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