Slaughterhouse-Five

A Novel

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<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, <i>Slaughterhouse-Five</i> is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (<i>Time</i>).</b><br><br><b>Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • <b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br><i>Slaughterhouse-Five</i>, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar 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.”<br><br>An instant bestseller, <i>Slaughterhouse-Five </i>made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passion

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780385333849

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

203 x 133 x 18 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House Publishing Group