Rank 86 of 100
Slaughterhouse-Five
Also known as Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade
Synopsis
Billy Pilgrim comes unstuck in time, living a drab American afterlife, a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore, and the firebombing of Dresden in no particular order. Vonnegut, who survived Dresden as a prisoner, refuses a straight war story. The refrain is a shrug that does not actually shrug.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1969
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Science fiction, War, Satire
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Postmodern
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 275 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most read American war novels
- Kind
- Fiction