TY - BOOK AU - Vonnegut,Kurt TI - Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death SN - 0385333846 (pbk.) U1 - 813.54 V896 Sl PY - 2005/// KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Fiction KW - Free will and determinism KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd KW - Science fiction KW - War stories N1 - "A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "The Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace." UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0626/2005280221-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2005280221-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0712/2005280221-s.html ER -