Slaughterhouse-Five
June 4, 2007
"Slaughterhouse-Five," by Kurt Vonnegut
Laurel 1991 paperback edtion
Strange, funny, wonderfully subversive classic from the man who came closest to being a modern Mark Twain. Telling the story of a man who experiances life with his timeline fractured, the novel follows him through World War II, through a troubled marriage, through an alien abduction and finally to his inevitable death, though not in that order. Most famous for its powerful descriptions of the bombing of Dresden (capturing the mind-boggling absurdity of Total War), the book is a classic depiction of alienation, fear and the inscrutable logic of modern life.
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