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In a career spanning over 50 years, vonnegut published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of nonfiction, with further collections being published after his death. It is often assigned by college and high school reading and writing classes, especially when our president wants us to go out and kill somebody. As billy is, vonnegut was sent to dresden and sheltered underground while the city was firebombed in. In a plotscrambling display of virtuosity, we follow pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his and vonneguts shattering experience as an american prisoner of war who. Slaughterhousefive, an american classic, is one of the worlds great antiwar books. But it was a bonafide weirdo and bonafide genius named kurt vonnegut who first brought the idea of being unstuck in time, or seeing your whole life before youbirth, death, the.
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Slaughterhousefive came out in 1969 near the height of the war in vietnam. Famous quotes from slaughterhousefive by kurt vonnegut. Retrospective treatment of vonnegut s most celebrated work as a genremixing work of war fiction and science fiction escapism. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 331 pages and is available in paperback format. What is the moral or message of slaughterhouse five. All you true detective fans out there are probably familiar with the old chestnut time is a flat circle.
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