Slaughterhouse 5: Vintage Quarterbound Classics

Hardback. New. <p><b>A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century.</b><br /><br />'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' <i>New York Times</i><br /><br /><b>Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time.</b><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><i>But when, exactly?<br />How did he get here?<br />And how does he get out?</i><br /><br />Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself.<br />This is a book about war.<br /><b>Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.</b><br /><br />'The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves' George Saunders<br /><br />'A rare accomplishment... it is a graceful, ferociously humorous, sarcastic and ultimately compassionate parable about man's power for evil and his capacity for grace' <i>Sunday Times</i><br /><br /><b>Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful</b></p>