Format:
Book
Author:
Vonnegut, Kurt.
Title:
Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death / by Kurt Vonnegut.
Edition:
Dial Press trade pbk. ed.
25th anniversary ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Dial Press, 2005.
Description:
275 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
Free will and determinism -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Science fiction.
War stories.
Other Title:
Slaughterhouse-5
Children's crusade
Notes:
"A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "The Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace."
LCCN:
2005280221
ISBN:
0385333846
9780385333849
9780385312080
0385312083
Other Number:
62885771
System Availability:
7
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
7
Control Number:
40873
Call Number:
FICTION Vonnegut
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
4
# System items in:
4