Slaughterhouse Five: Kurt Vonnegut

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful. A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century. 'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' 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. 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.
'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' George Saunders 'A rare accomplishment... It is a graceful, ferociously humorous, sarcastic and ultimately compassionate parable about man's power for evil and his capacity for grace' Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful