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A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century.

''A book to read and reread. He is a true artist'' New York Times

Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber''s assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time.

Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War.

But when, exactly?
How did he get here?
And how does he get out?

Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself.
This is a book about war.
Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.

''The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves'

Slaughterhouse 5

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    A Hardback by Kurt Vonnegut

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Publishing
      Published 4 April 2024
      ISBN-13 9781784879693
      978-1784879693
      ISBN-10 178487969X
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Books by Kurt Vonnegut

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century.

      ''A book to read and reread. He is a true artist'' New York Times

      Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber''s assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time.

      Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War.

      But when, exactly?
      How did he get here?
      And how does he get out?

      Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself.
      This is a book about war.
      Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.

      ''The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves'

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