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Title: Slaughterhouse 5
Condition: New
EAN: 9781784874858
ISBN: 9781784874858
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
Release Date: 28/03/2019
Item Height: 204mm
Item Length: 144mm
Item Width: 26mm
Item Weight: 345g
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Language: English
Subtitle: 50th Anniversary Edition
ISBN-10: 178487485X
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Classic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction
Release Year: 2019
Description:

50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION

As 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.

For many years, Kurt tried to write about Dresden but the words would not come. When he did write about it, he combined his trademark humour, unfettered imagination, boundless humanity and keen sense of irony to create one of the most powerful anti-war books every written, and an enduring American classic.

This special edition is published with notes of appreciation from some of the book's ardent fans (Kate Atkinson, Richard Herring, Robin Ince) as well as fascinating extra material from Vonnegut's archive which casts light on the genesis, reception and enduring influence of an iconic American classic.

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