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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 04/03/2021
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ISBN: 9781784875954
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Length: 208 Pages
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Dimensions: 178mm x 13mm x 129mm
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Weight: 154g
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RRP: £9.99
Slaughterhouse 5
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Vintage Classics Most Red Series.
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Series: MOST RED
MOST LOVED. MOST RED. Ten must-read modern classics.
'So it goes.'
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.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 04/03/2021
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ISBN: 9781784875954
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Length: 208 Pages
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Dimensions: 178mm x 13mm x 129mm
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Weight: 154g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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Marvellous...the writing is pungent, the antics uproarious, the humour suitably black, the wit sharp as a hypodermic
Daily Telegraph
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Mr Vonnegut knows a great deal about what is probably the largest massacre in modern history - the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945. Slaughterhouse Five is a reaction to the event by one of our most gifted and incisive novelists. A work of keen literary artistry
Joseph Heller, author of 'Catch-22'
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The individuality of Vonnegut's style is a curious yet perfect match for the pain of the emotional content. A humane, human book that always remains a work of art rather than biography, no matter how apparent the author's presence
Kate Atkinson
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Unique...one of the writers who map our landscapes for us, who give names to the places we know best
Doris Lessing
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Funny, satirical, compelling, outrageous, fanciful, mordant, fecund and at the bottom-line, simply stoned-out-of-its-mind
Los Angeles Times
