Description
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright blue boards, strong black title ink on a straight spine and the front, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, no edge wear, and rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. N other marks, inscriptions, or signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”
