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Book SynopsisKurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of war in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired the canonic war novel
Slaughterhouse-Five. He is the author of thirteen other novels, which include
Cat's Cradle,
Jailbird,
Deadeye Dick,
Galápagos and
Bluebeard, two collections of stories, and three non-fiction books. He died in 2007.
Trade ReviewA brilliant wacky ideas-monger * Observer *
A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny * Financial Times *
One of the 20th century's finest humorists and humanists, a writer who has inherited HG Wells's visionary imagination and his gift for social commentary * Sunday Times *
