Slaughter-house five; (Record no. 3594)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780440180296
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 813
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Personal name Vonnegut, Kurt
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Slaughter-house five;
Remainder of title or The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Random House Inc.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1969
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Extent 215 p.
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Price type code INR
Price amount 499.00
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Summary, etc. Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”<br/><br/>An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “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.”<br/><br/>More than fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut’s portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fiction
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Historical fiction
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Science fiction
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction TB2159 12-11-2022 Indian Institute of Management LRC Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks 12/07/2022 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 342.56 1 1 813 VON 003900 08/30/2023 08/08/2023 1 499.00 12/07/2022 Book

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