Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
by Kurt Vonnegut
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Kanab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Dell, New York, 1971 Dell 8029, 95c cover price. "First Dell printing - October 1971". An excellent, very good plus copy, probably unread. Binding tight and square; pages clean, with no marks of any kind. Color-illustrated covers with mild edgewear and several inconspicuous creases, green-tinted edges of book block, 7 x 4 3/16 inches, 215 pp. "Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., a fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod [and smoking too much], who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, 'the Florence of the Elbe,' a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace." (K062). Soft cover. Very Good.
Synopsis
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boojum and Snark Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4490
- Title
- Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
- Author
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Dell, New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- WORLD WAR II, DRESDEN, GERMANY, FIRE-BOMBING, ANTI-WAR, SCIENCE FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Boojum and Snark Books
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Kanab, Utah
About Boojum and Snark Books
General antiquarian and out-of-print books. Specializing in medicine, history of medicine, science, technology and technical books.
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