SlaughterhouseFive Author:Kurt Vonnegut Jr. With Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, author of such classics as Cat's Cradle and God Bless You, Mr Rosewater, takes center stage as one of America's most important writers. — 'Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. has written one of the major novels of the year . . . haunting . . . irresistible reading . . . poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion ... more »and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement . . . work of art.' --Boston Globe
'Splendid art and simplicity . . . Nerve Wracking control . . . A funny book at which you are note permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears, a tale told in a slaughterhouse.' --Life Magazine« less