Slaughterhouse five
Vonnegut, Kurt, 1922-2019
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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 every written, and an enduring American classic.
Main title:
Slaughterhouse five / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Author:
Vonnegut, Kurt, 1922-, author
Edition:
50th anniversary edition.
Imprint:
London : Vintage Classics, 2019.
Collation:
192 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781784874858 (hbk)
Dewey class:
813.54
LC class:
PS3572.O5
Local class:
FIC
Language:
English
BRN:
2429983