Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Hardback Book 9781784879693

A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth centuryA book to read and reread He is a true artist New York TimesBilly Pilgrim hapless barbers assistant successful optometrist alien abductee senile widower and soldier has become unstuck in timeHiding 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 WarBut when exactlyHow did he get hereAnd how does he get outTravel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himselfThis is a book about warListen to what he has to say it is of the utmost urgencyThe 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 SaundersA rare accomplishment it is a graceful ferociously humorous sarcastic and ultimately compassionate parable about mans power for evil and his capacity for grace Sunday TimesVintage Quarterbound Classics Bound to be beautiful