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Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade "And I say to Sam now: 'Sam-here's the book.' It's so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like 'Poo-tee-weet?" FIRST EDITION of one of the most influential works of twentieth-century American literature. Vonnegut “deserves full canonical marks for this kaleidoscopic koan of a novel about Billy Pilgrim, a man who has ‘become unstuck in time.’ Pilgrim ricochets helplessly from decade to decade, living the episodes of his life in no particular sequence, not excluding his own death, his capture by aliens called Tralfamadorians, and his traumatic service in World War II, when he lives through the firebombing of Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five is a cynical novel, but beneath the bitter, grim-jawed humor is a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the 20th century” (Lev Grossman, Time Magazine’s 100 Best Novels, 1923-Present). New York: Delacorte Press, (1969). Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Book fine, mild toning to dust jacket and small hair-line scrape to front panel. $2000. |
