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SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 - KURT VONNEGUT GEBUNDEN

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University.
An army intelligence scout during the Second World War  he was captured by the Germans and
witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers  an experience which inspired his
classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five. After the war he worked as a police reporter  an advertising
copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel Player Piano (1952)
achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the
best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'. His eighth book 
Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success  and was
made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut is the author of thirteen other novels  three collections of
stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.

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