
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
1959

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.