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Slaughterhouse-five or the children's crusade : a duty-dance with death
Title:
Slaughterhouse-five or the children's crusade : a duty-dance with death
Author:
Vonnegut, Kurt
ISBN:
9780385333849
Edition:
2009 Dial press trade paperback ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Dial Pub., 2009
Physical Description:
275 p. ; 21 cm
Abstract:
Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction
Free will and determinism -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Science fiction
War stories
Summary:
Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present.