Description
The book is in Very Good condition with bright boards with a few spots, strong title gilt on a straight spine, heavy foxing (age spots) on the page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled and rubbed spine ends, heavy edge wear, and one bumped and rubbed corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the first free endpaper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers have moderate to heavy foxing and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
No dust jacket as issued .
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.”
