Slaughterhouse 5 - Vintage Quarterbound Classics

Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower, and soldier - has become unstuck in time.<BR><BR>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. From Dresden's burning city to later life in America, leaping through time and space, Slaughterhouse 5 explores what war does to the mind and why remembering matters.<BR><BR>Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful.<BR><BR>'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times<BR>'The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century' George Saunders<BR>'A graceful, ferociously humorous, sarcastic and ultimately compassionate parable about man's power for evil and his capacity for grace' Sunday Times