Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

#954 of 8,085 books · #193 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1970), the Hugo Award for Best Novel (1970), and the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1969).

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great anti-war books. Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. Billy Pilgrim has read Kilgore Trout, opened a successful optometry business, built a loving family, witnessed the firebombing of Dresden, traveled to the planet Tralfamadore, and met Kurt Vonnegut. Billy Pilgrim's journey is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be fallibly human.