Vonnegut,Kurt  <br/><br/>
SLAUGHTERHOUSE - FIVE OR CHILDREN'S CRUSADE : Duty Dance with Dead  50th Anniversary Edition 

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 - London  Vintage  2019/01/01 
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<br/><br/> "Marvellous...the writing is pungent, the antics uproarious, the wit as sharp as a hypodermic needle" * Daily Telegraph * "A laughing prophet of doom" * New York Times * "Mr Vonnegut knows a great deal about what is probably the largest massacre in modern history - the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945. Slaughterhouse Five is a reaction to the event by one of our most gifted and incisive novelists. A work of keen literary artistry" -- Joseph Heller, author of 'Catch-22' "I came to this book later in life. I think it is, among other things, the loveliest, most delicate account of post-traumatic stress I've ever read - like the water that simply runs from the eyes of Billy Pilgrim." -- Elizabeth Strout, author of 'My Name is Lucy Barton' "Unique...one of the writers who map our landscapes for us, who give names to the places we know best" -- Doris Lessing   50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITIONAs a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 US fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781784874858 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Purchased  Prism books,Kadavanthra 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Fiction, Prisoners of war <br/>Fiction.<br/>Children and war <br/>World War, 1939-1945 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>F  / VON/SL