Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death

Author：Kurt Vonnegut

Paperback: 192 pages

Publisher: Vintage Classics; New Ed edition (21 Mar. 1991)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0099800209

ISBN-13: 978-0099800200

Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm

书籍简介

Prisoner of war, optometrist, time-traveller - these are the life roles of Billy Pilgrim, hero of this miraculously moving, bitter and funny story of innocence faced with apocalypse. Slaughterhouse 5 is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centring on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden in the Second World War, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

作者简介

Kurt Vonnegut was a writer, lecturer and painter. He was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. 

First published in 1950, he went on to write fourteen novels, four plays, and three short story collections, in addition to countless works of short fiction and nonfiction. He died in 2007.