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Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death

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Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
Type
Novel
Language
English
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Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years. Throughout the novel, Billy frequently travels back and forth through time. The protagonist deals with a temporal crisis as a result of his post-war psychological trauma. The text centers on Billy's capture by the German Army and his survival of the Allied firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war, an experience that Vonnegut endured as an American serviceman. The work has been called an example of "unmatched moral clarity" and "one of the most enduring anti-war novels of all time".

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Science fiction-infused anti-war novel first published on March 31, 1969.

Last modified: 2020-10-09 (revision #31133)

Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
Slaughterhouse-Five (100 Best Novels - 50th Anniversary edition)Hardcover978-03853120801994-02-01
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OpenLibrary Work ID
OL98474W
Wikidata Work ID
Q265954

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Review by: kirk781 Wed Mar 20 2024
An iconic anti war novel with some weird time travel bits ensconced within ...View >
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