Slaughterhouse 5
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Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower, and soldier - has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. From Dresden’s burning city to later life in America, leaping through time and space, Slaughterhouse 5 explores what war does to the mind and why remembering matters. Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful. 'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times 'The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century' George Saunders 'A graceful, ferociously humorous, sarcastic and ultimately compassionate parable about man's power for evil and his capacity for grace' Sunday Times
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel Player Piano (1952) achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'. His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784879693 |
| ISBN 10 | 178487969X |
| Titel | Slaughterhouse 5 |
| Autor | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Serie | Vintage Quarterbound Classics |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Vintage Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2024-04-04 |
| Seitenanzahl | 192 |
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