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SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE Kurt Vonnegut SUNTUP Numbered edition of 350 OOP Brand New

Description: An American classic named by Modern Library as one of the top 20 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five is Kurt Vonnegut’s semi-autobiographical, science fiction infused anti-war masterpiece that defies genre. Slaughterhouse-Five is the story of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran and POW who becomes “unstuck in time,” experiencing all known events of his chronology out of order and sometimes simultaneously. Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history—sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness—as he struggles to find purpose, order, or meaning to his own existence and to that of humanity. Published on March 31, 1969, Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW, much like Vonnegut did. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.” An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite the book being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. In 2019, The New Yorker wrote, “Vonnegut’s novel is about that, about the inevitability of human violence, and about what it does to the not particularly violent human beings who get caught up in it.” Slaughterhouse-Five remained on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of sixteen weeks. The novel was a finalist for the National Book Award, and it was nominated for both the Nebula and Hugo. NUMBERED EDITION 6” x 9” trim size. 238 pages. Limited to 350 copies. Quarter goatskin binding with duo-tone woven cotton cloth covering the boards. Cover features an inset label printed letterpress. Sculpted headcaps. Handmade headbands. New exclusive introduction by Jess Walter. Frontispiece illustration by Edith Vonnegut. Six full color illustrations by Julian De Narvaez, as well as ten pen and ink vignettes which appear at the head of each chapter. Pen and ink illustrations printed letterpress with the text. Signed by Edith Vonnegut, Jess Walter and Julian De Narvaez. Endsheets are Canson Mi-Teintes. Printed letterpress on Stonehenge cotton paper. Printed in two color on the title and chapter pages. Housed in a slipcase covered with woven cloth and a paper label wrapping the spine and sides. Handbound in the United Kingdom by Roger Grech. Bookmark with all orders.

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SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE Kurt Vonnegut SUNTUP Numbered edition of 350 OOP Brand New

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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Binding: Fine Binding

Place of Publication: Suntup Editions

Signed: Yes

Publisher: Suntup Editions

Subject: Literature & Fiction

Original/Facsimile: Original

Language: English

Illustrator: Julian De Narvaez

Special Attributes: Collector's Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Luxury Edition, Numbered, signed by artist

Region: North America

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Personalized: No

Topic: Literature

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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