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Cover of “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut · 1969

275 pages

Billy Pilgrim, a chaplain's assistant and prisoner of war in Dresden, becomes unstuck in time, living his life out of order among moments in the war and on another planet. His flat, looping account turns a firebombing and a life's small cruelties into a dark joke about fate.

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Time Travel, Satire, War Fiction, Philosophical

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