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Slaughterhouse Five

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Author : Kurt Vonnegut
language : en
Publisher: Dell
Release Date : 1991-11-03

Slaughterhouse Five written by Kurt Vonnegut and has been published by Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-11-03 with Fiction categories.

Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” (Time). Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, 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.” An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “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.” More than fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut’s portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.

Cliffsnotes On Vonnegut S Slaughterhouse Five

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Author : Dennis S Smith
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2007-08-15

Cliffsnotes On Vonnegut S Slaughterhouse Five written by Dennis S Smith and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

An odd book in that it mixes elements of science fiction with psychological analysis, Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a GI prisoner of war. He time-travels and wanders through a mysterious ether where spatial-temporal relationships are at odds with what we accept as reality.

A Man Without A Country

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Author : Kurt Vonnegut
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04

A Man Without A Country written by Kurt Vonnegut and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Literary Collections categories.

A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut’s hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"), art ("To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."), politics ("I asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton what he thought of our great victory over Iraq and he said, ‘Mohammed Ali versus Mr. Rogers.’"), and the condition of the soul of America today ("What has happened to us?"). Based on short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author throughout, A Man Without a Country gives us Vonnegut both speaking out with indignation and writing tenderly to his fellow Americans, sometimes joking, at other times hopeless, always searching.

Oryx And Crake

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Author : Margaret Atwood
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-09-03

Oryx And Crake written by Margaret Atwood and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-03 with Fiction categories.

By the author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE and ALIAS GRACE Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility. Praise for Oryx and Crake: 'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An adman who's a sad man; a jealous lover who's in perpetual mourning; a fantasist who can only remember the past' INDEPENDENT 'Gripping and remarkably imagined' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

Unstuck In Time

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Author : Gregory D. Sumner
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-11-08

Unstuck In Time written by Gregory D. Sumner and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of Kurt Vonnegut’s best known works, his fourteen novels starting with Player Piano (1952) all the way to an epilogue on his last book, A Man Without a Country (2005), to illustrate the quintessential American writer’s profound engagement with the "American Dream" in its various forms. Sumner gives us a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the traditional values associated with the American Dream: grandiose ambition, unbridled material success, rugged individualism, and "winners" over "losers." Instead of a celebration of these values, we read and share Vonnegut’s outrage, his brokenhearted empathy for those who struggle under the ethos of survival-of-the-fittest in the frontier mentality—something he once memorably described as "an impossibly tough-minded experiment in loneliness." Heroic and tragic, Vonnegut’s novels reflect the pain of his own life’s experiences, relieved by small acts of kindness, friendship, and love that exemplify another way of living, another sort of human utopia, an alternative American Dream, and the reason we always return to his books.

Player Piano

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Author : Kurt Vonnegut
language : en
Publisher: Dial Press
Release Date : 2009-09-30

Player Piano written by Kurt Vonnegut and has been published by Dial Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-30 with Fiction categories.

“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Praise for Player Piano “An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma.”—Life “His black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear.”—The New York Times Book Review

Cliffsnotes On Vonnegut S Major Works

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Author : Thomas R. Holland
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2004-10-28

Cliffsnotes On Vonnegut S Major Works written by Thomas R. Holland and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-28 with Literary Criticism categories.

Kurt Vonnegut takes on many aspects of life and America, science and fantasy. He points a camera at society and individuals, obscures certain elements of narrative device, and then reveals a twisted, yet recognizable picture.

The Naked And The Dead

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Author : Norman Mailer
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-11-01

The Naked And The Dead written by Norman Mailer and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with Fiction categories.

Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and shattering portrayal of ordinary men in battle. First published in 1949, as America was still basking in the glories of the Allied victory, it altered forever the popular perception of warfare. Focusing on the experiences of a fourteen-man platoon stationed on a Japanese-held island in the South Pacific during World War II, and written in a journalistic style, it tells the moving story of the soldiers' struggle to retain a sense of dignity amidst the horror of warfare, and to find a source of meaning in their lives amisdst the sounds and fury of battle.

Cliffsnotes On Vonnegut S Slaughterhouse Five

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Author : Dennis Stanton Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Release Date : 1997-04-30

Cliffsnotes On Vonnegut S Slaughterhouse Five written by Dennis Stanton Smith and has been published by Cliffs Notes this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.

An odd book in that it mixes elements of science fiction with psychological analysis, Slaughterhouse-Five tells the story of Billy Pilgrim, a GI prisoner of war. He time-travels and wanders through a mysterious ether where spatial-temporal relationships are at odds with what we accept as reality.

Tropic Of Cancer Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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Author : Henry Miller
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2012-01-30

Tropic Of Cancer Harper Perennial Modern Classics written by Henry Miller and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-30 with Fiction categories.

Miller’s groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years.