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Slaughterhouse 5
50th Anniversary Edition
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Slaughterhouse 5
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.
For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come.
50th anniversary hardback edition of the bestselling cult US classic - with extra material
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50th anniversary hardback edition of the bestselling cult US classic - with extra material
50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION
As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens.
For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When he did write about it, he combined his trademark humour, unfettered imagination, boundless humanity and keen sense of irony to create one of the most powerful anti-war books ever written, and an enduring American classic.
This special edition is published with notes of appreciation from some of the book's ardent fans (Kate Atkinson, Richard Herring, Robin Ince) as well as fascinating extra material from Vonnegut's archive which casts light on the genesis, reception, and enduring influence of an iconic American classic.
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is praised for its incisive wit and its poignant, artistic reaction to the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945. Joseph Heller admires its literary artistry, while Elizabeth Strout appreciates its delicate exploration of post-traumatic stress. The novel evokes sharp humour, receiving acclaim for its unique perspective and impact on modern literature, as noted by the Daily Telegraph, New York Times, and Doris Lessing.
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ISBN: 9781784874858
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 28 March 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 26.0mm
Width: 144.0mm
Height: 204.0mm
Weight: 345g
Pages: 256
About the Author
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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