Slaughterhouse 5
by Vonnegut, Kurt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 178487969X
- ISBN 13
- 9781784879693
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About This Item
Original Hardcover. Publisher: Random House UK | 2024 | Original Hardcover | 192 sidor ; 21 cm | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: A beautiful hardback edition of a unique book: one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century. 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.' George Saunders 'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times Book Review VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.
Synopsis
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is an anti-war science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim.
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- Bookseller
- h:strom - Text & Kultur AB / Antikvariat & Bokhandel (SE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB-16681246
- Title
- Slaughterhouse 5
- Author
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Format/Binding
- Original Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 178487969X
- ISBN 13
- 9781784879693
- Keywords
- Barber, optiker, krig, tid, överlevnad
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