A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny moving and brilliant novels of the
twentieth century. 'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times Billy
Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant successful optometrist alien abductee senile widower
and soldier - has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden
with the city and its inhabitants burning above him he finds himself a survivor of one of the
most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War. But when exactly?How did he get
here?And how does he get out? Travel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut
himself. This is a book about war. Listen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.
'The great urgent passionate American writer of our century who offers us a model of the
kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves' George Saunders 'A rare
accomplishment... it is a graceful ferociously humorous sarcastic and ultimately
compassionate parable about man's power for evil and his capacity for grace' Sunday Times
Vintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful
