Slaughterhouse Five - Softcover
"The book follows a young man, Billy Pilgrim through his life. Billy believes aliens, tralfamadorians to be exact, have abducted him. We assume that it's through these aliens that he learns to time travel, a skill he frequently uses. In the book Pilgrim bounces around time to all the various portions of his life, many times returning to World War II where he was captured, taken prisoner, and held in slaughterhouse five in Dresden, Germany. He seems to be defined by this moment in his life as he frequently returns there. If you know anything about Vonnegut, you know that he too was held in Dresden, Germany when the city was firebombed. This is the major setup for this antiwar novel as Dresden was home to over 100,000 persons while at the same time Dresden didn't have any industry lending itself to the war effort. Obviously you wonder, "Then why was this city bombed? What advantage came from killing well over 100,000 thousand civilians?""
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- PublisherDELL PUBL CO
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0440080290
- ISBN 13 9780440080299
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
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