Slaughterhouse-Five Summary
Kurt Vonnegut

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Slaughterhouse-Five Summary

In 1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was not especially well known or commercially successful, despite having already published five novels and two short story collections. The publication of Slaughterhouse Five in that year marked Vonnegut's artistic and commercial breakthrough. Based on Vonnegut's own experiences as a World War IT prisoner who witnessed the Allied firebombing of Dresden, Ger­many, Slaughterhouse-Five is the story of Billy Pil­grim, a man who has come "unstuck...

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