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Slaughterhouse 5

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.

Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Hiding 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 War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?

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Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.

Billy Pilgrim – hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier – has become unstuck in time. Hiding 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 War. But when, exactly? How did he get here? And how does he get out?

Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.

‘An extraordinary success. A book to read and reread. He is a true artist’ New York Times Book Review

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

Detaljer

Forlag
Vintage Classics
Innbinding
Paperback
Språk
Engelsk
Sider
192
ISBN
9781784879822
Utgivelsesår
2024
Format
20 x 13 cm

Om forfatteren

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel Player Piano (1952) achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'. His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.

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Euphoria – 16.02.2006

– Slaughterhouse 5 var mitt første møte med Vonnegut, men det blir garantert ikke det siste. Dette er en fantasifull og spennende liten roman som handler om Billy Pilgrims opplevelser under den andre verdenskrig. Boken hopper friskt mellom nåtid, fortid og fremtid med tiden i seg selv som tablå. Med en sterk overbevisning om at han ble bortført av romvesener, hallusinerer Pilgrim seg gjennom krigen.. eller kanskje han har rett i at all tid eksisterer samtidig? Satiren er skarp, humoren underfundig og språket svært fengslende. Bifigurene (som f.eks sci-fi forfatteren Trout) er minst like fascinerende som fortellergrepet og selve historien.
La deg ikke skremme av meta-grepene som presenteres i første kapittel. Dette er en historie fortalt helt utenom det vanlige.

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