Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade
Ryan North, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.39 · 18 ratings · Published: 26 Sep 2020
An American classic and one of the world’s seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!).
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has...
...read Kilgore Trout
...opened a successful optometry business
...built a loving family
...witnessed the firebombing of Dresden
...traveled to the planet Tralfamadore
...met Kurt Vonnegut
...come unstuck in time.
Billy Pilgrim’s journey is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be fallibly human.
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- classics 3
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- historical 3
- historical fiction 3
- time travel 3
- world war II 3
- funny 3
- aliens 2
- horror 2
- dystopia 2
- philosophical 2
- magical realism 2
- paranormal 2
- military 1
- political 1
- action / adventure 1
- retellings 1
- dark 1
- 20th century 1
- literary fiction 1
- military, war & conflict 1
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- comic 3
- young adult 2
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- mental illness 2
- death / grief 2