Slaughterhouse-Five
A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
by Kurt Vonnegut
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“@ericarhodes Slaughterhouse 5 in my top 10 books ever. I have a story about "Catch 22" and the Heller family if we run into each other again. Also one of my favorites. | I’ve read all of these, they’re all great books | ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS. ORDERED.”
Source →“@ericarhodes Slaughterhouse 5 in my top 10 books ever. I have a story about "Catch 22" and the Heller family if we run into each other again. Also one of my favorites. | I’ve read all of these, they’re all great books | ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS. ORDERED.”
Source →“@ericarhodes Slaughterhouse 5 in my top 10 books ever. I have a story about "Catch 22" and the Heller family if we run into each other again. Also one of my favorites. | I’ve read all of these, they’re all great books | ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS. ORDERED.”
Source →“@ericarhodes Slaughterhouse 5 in my top 10 books ever. I have a story about "Catch 22" and the Heller family if we run into each other again. Also one of my favorites. | I’ve read all of these, they’re all great books | ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS. ORDERED.”
Source →“@ericarhodes Slaughterhouse 5 in my top 10 books ever. I have a story about "Catch 22" and the Heller family if we run into each other again. Also one of my favorites. | I’ve read all of these, they’re all great books | ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS. ORDERED.”
Source →“@ericarhodes Slaughterhouse 5 in my top 10 books ever. I have a story about "Catch 22" and the Heller family if we run into each other again. Also one of my favorites. | I’ve read all of these, they’re all great books | ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS. ORDERED.”
Source →Recommended by 8 notable people, including Sophie Bakalar and Cleo Abram
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Recommended by 10 sources and appears in Satire, War, and Vocabulary Building.
Slaughterhouse-Five is a satirical novel by Kurt Vonnegut about World War II experiences and journeys through time of a chaplain's assistant named Billy Pilgrim. It is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work. Vonnegut's use of the firebombing of Dresden as a central event makes the novel semiautobiographical, because h...
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Recommended by 10 sources and appears in Satire, War, and Vocabulary Building.
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“@ericarhodes Slaughterhouse 5 in my top 10 books ever. I have a story about "Catch 22" and the Heller family if we run into each other again. Also one of my favorites. | I’ve read all of these, they’re all great books | ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS. ORDERED.”
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