Nominee · National Book Awards 1970
Slaughterhouse-Five
1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- war fiction
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