Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material. Slaughterhousefive therefore has a crucial concern with the novels narrative point of view pholer, 1997, p. No book is included in this listing, however we may have the original book available for sale in our store under a different listing. The barbershop quartet will appear later in the text as a trigger for one of billys memories about the war. Ohare, and we made friends with a taxi driver, who took us to the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoner of war. It also has one of the alltime great opening lines in literature as it begins what is surely one of the strangest meditations on war. Slaughterhouse five is vonneguts most influential book, through it resembles other kurt vonnegut creations. A novel modern library 100 best novels book author by vonnegut, kurt paperback with clear copy pdf epub kindle format. Set around world war ii, the novels tells of the story of billy pilgrim, a chaplains assistant, and his experiences and journeys through time.
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