Description: Kurt Vonnegut's long-awaited war novel proves to be a miracle of compression. It is a contemporary Pilgrim's Progress, with the hero named, curiously enough, Billy Pilgrim. He is the son of an American barber. He serves as a chaplain's assistant in the Second World War, is captured by the Germans, survives the largest massacre in European history, the fire bombing of Dresden. (Vonnegut, too, was a prisoner of war and saw that fire storm.) Billy Pilgrim becomes an optometrist after the war, makes a great deal of money, is kidnapped by a flying saucer from the planet Tralfamadore on his daughter's wedding night. He is mated in public in a zoo on that planet-to a star of many Earthling blue movies, the gorgeous Montana Wildhack. And so on. Beautiful. JACKET DESIGN BY Paul Bacon
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Topic: Novels
Subject: Children's
