Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great anti-war 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 barber’s 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.”
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Hardback, very good condition. Minimal wear to jacket edges. Sun-fading on spine. Cover and pages are in excellent condition.
Published by Delacorte Press, 2012. First printing of this edition (first published 1969).
ISBN: 9780385364133