Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death

ISBN-13: 9780385333849 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 288 str.

Kurt Vonnegut

Opis

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

Recenzje

Poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement. The Boston Globe

Very tough and very funny . . . sad and delightful . . . very Vonnegut. The New York Times

Splendid . . . a funny book at which you are not permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears. Life

Funny, satirical, compelling, outrageous, fanciful, mordant, fecund . . .  It s too good to be science fiction, [the critics] would say. But Vonnegut doesn t care, and you won t care, either, because this is a writer who leaps over genres. Los Angeles Times

O autorze

Kurt Vonnegut s humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as a true artist (The New York Times) with Cat s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, one of the best living American writers. Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.