{"product_id":"9781784879693","title":"Slaughterhouse 5 : Vintage Quarterbound Classics","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Vonnegut, Kurt \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 4 April 2024 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Vintage Quarterbound Classics' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 192 pages\u003cbr\u003e205 x 135 x 19 | 258g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York TimesBilly Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when, exactly?How did he get here?And how does he get out?Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eListen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves' George Saunders'A rare accomplishment... it is a graceful, ferociously humorous, sarcastic and ultimately compassionate parable about man's power for evil and his capacity for grace' Sunday TimesVintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45779590611184,"sku":"9781784879693","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9781784879693_6f1319f4-84da-4300-880a-04be7649d7c8.jpg?v=1713544778","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.live\/products\/9781784879693","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}