Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of
the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II
firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described
as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as
an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction,
autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a
barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As
Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike
Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”Monday, January 13, 2020
Slaughter-House Five by Kirk Vonnegut
Picked by Evan - January 21st 2020 Meeting
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of
the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II
firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described
as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as
an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction,
autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a
barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As
Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike
Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of
the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II
firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described
as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as
an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction,
autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a
barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As
Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike
Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”
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