Slaughterhouse-Five

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

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. "Splendid art... a funny book at which you are not permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears." --Life Kurt Vonnegut’s black 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.