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General FictionLarge Print EditionBilly Pilgrim is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplains assistant in World War II, is captured by the Germans, and he survives the largest massacre in European history the fire bombing of Dresden. After the war Billy makes a great deal of money as an optometrist, and on his wedding night he is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore. So begins a modern classic by a master storyteller.
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- Hardcover 232 Pages
- Edition: Largeprint
- ISBN-10: 0783883706
- ISBN-13: 9780783883700
- Publisher: G. K. Hall & Company
- Pub date: Mar 01, 1998
- Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding, Unbound and Others
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Still ruminating over this one... Kurt Vonnegut tells us that this is an anti-war novel, but it's not what you would expect. No preaching, no anguish, no weeping, no angry disavowals of war. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, gets unstuck in time and pilgrims through time and space. War as a defined ... Continue
Still ruminating over this one... Kurt Vonnegut tells us that this is an anti-war novel, but it's not what you would expect. No preaching, no anguish, no weeping, no angry disavowals of war. The main character, Billy Pilgrim, gets unstuck in time and pilgrims through time and space. War as a defined moment in time slowly comes unravelled as Billy's war experience bleeds into and merges with the rest of his life. The absurdity of the ocean of war spills to the farthest shores where it wettens and is absorbed by the sands normal life, which is itself abnormal.
Not really a novel to find meaning in, at least not the meaning of allegory. The jumps in chrnology can seem not worth it at the beginning, but read on to the end. It's more about the effect. A difficult but worthwhile book.
KV actually was one of the survivors of Dresden. I'm not sure if many of the young readers know this. I would also suggest reading "All Is Quiet On The Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It is a novel about the trench warfare of WWI--and was banned by Hitler because it painted the Germans in a ... Continue
KV actually was one of the survivors of Dresden. I'm not sure if many of the young readers know this. I would also suggest reading "All Is Quiet On The Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. It is a novel about the trench warfare of WWI--and was banned by Hitler because it painted the Germans in a negative light (in his opinion).
Very interesting book, I'm glad I read it.
Life-changing.
I know this is supposed to be brilliant but it jumped around too much for me. Also it was just to weird.
I believe this one sat on the shelf for some time before actually completing it. I believe it was the last Vonnegut book I read.