Slaughterhouse-five: Or, The Children's Crusade: a Duty-dance with Death

Slaughterhouse-five: Or, The Children's Crusade: a Duty-dance with death 215 pages vintage paperback copy complete with chipping, creasing on its spine some Edge wear - decorative green wash on exterior of its pages which are slightly tanned closer to the original form --the first Dell printing was October 1971 printed in USA reprinted arrangement with delacourt Press Inc. / Seymour Lawrence Inc Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time' after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden-.Billy Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history--the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal of money as an optometrist, and on his wedding night he is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. So begins a modern classic by a master storyteller. about the authorhe appeal of Kurt Vonnegut, especially to bright younger readers of the past few decades, may be attributed partly to the fact that he is one of the few writers who have successfully straddled the imaginary line between science-fiction/fantasy - "real literature." He was born in Indianapolis and attended Cornell University, but his college education was interrupted by World War II. Captured during the Battle of the Bulge and imprisoned in Dresden, he received a Purple Heart for what he calls a "ludicrously negligible wound." After the war he returned to Cornell and then earned his M.A. at the University of Chicago...He worked as a police reporter and in public relations before placing several short stories in the popular magazines and beginning his career as a novelist.-Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jr - Slaughterhouse-five: Or, The Children's Crusade: a Duty-dance with Death A Panther book Author Kurt Vonnegut Publisher Dell trade paperback (8029 )1975- 4084 sm blk sb SLAUGHTERHOUSE pb