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X-WR-CALDESC:IFL Classics Book Club: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut\n
 \nSlaughterhouse-Five is the now famous parable of Billy Pilgrim\, a World
  War II veteran and POW who has\, in the later stage of his life\, become 
 'unstuck in time' and who experiences at will (or unwillingly) all known e
 vents of his chronology out of order and sometimes simultaneously.\n\nTrau
 matized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned\, Pil
 grim drifts through all events and history\, sometimes deeply implicated\,
  sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of c
 ontinuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore
  Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians\, who oversee his life and remind him
  constantly that there is no causation\, no order\, no motive to existence
 ). The 'unstuck' nature of Pilgrim's experience may constitute an early no
 velistic use of what we now call post-traumatic stress disorder\; then aga
 in\, Pilgrim's aliens may be as 'real' as Dresden is real to him.\n\nStrug
 gling to find some purpose\, order\, or meaning to his existence and human
 ity's\, Pilgrim meets the beauteous and mysterious Montana Wildhack (certa
 inly the author's best character name)\, has a child with her\, and drifts
  on some supernal plane\, finally\, in which Kilgore Trout\, the Tralfamad
 orians\, Montana Wildhack\, and the ruins of Dresden do not merge but rath
 er disperse through all planes of existence.\n\nSlaughterhouse-Five was hu
 gely successful\, brought Vonnegut an enormous audience\, was a finalist f
 or the National Book Award and a bestseller\, and remains four decades lat
 er as timeless and shattering a war fiction as Catch-22\, with which it st
 ands as the two signal novels of their riotous and furious decade.\n\nBook
 s are available at the library. Click the link below to get email updates 
 about this book club.
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DESCRIPTION:IFL Classics Book Club: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut\n
 \nSlaughterhouse-Five is the now famous parable of Billy Pilgrim\, a World
  War II veteran and POW who has\, in the later stage of his life\, become 
 'unstuck in time' and who experiences at will (or unwillingly) all known e
 vents of his chronology out of order and sometimes simultaneously.\n\nTrau
 matized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned\, Pil
 grim drifts through all events and history\, sometimes deeply implicated\,
  sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of c
 ontinuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore
  Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians\, who oversee his life and remind him
  constantly that there is no causation\, no order\, no motive to existence
 ). The 'unstuck' nature of Pilgrim's experience may constitute an early no
 velistic use of what we now call post-traumatic stress disorder\; then aga
 in\, Pilgrim's aliens may be as 'real' as Dresden is real to him.\n\nStrug
 gling to find some purpose\, order\, or meaning to his existence and human
 ity's\, Pilgrim meets the beauteous and mysterious Montana Wildhack (certa
 inly the author's best character name)\, has a child with her\, and drifts
  on some supernal plane\, finally\, in which Kilgore Trout\, the Tralfamad
 orians\, Montana Wildhack\, and the ruins of Dresden do not merge but rath
 er disperse through all planes of existence.\n\nSlaughterhouse-Five was hu
 gely successful\, brought Vonnegut an enormous audience\, was a finalist f
 or the National Book Award and a bestseller\, and remains four decades lat
 er as timeless and shattering a war fiction as Catch-22\, with which it st
 ands as the two signal novels of their riotous and furious decade.\n\nBook
 s are available at the library. Click the link below to get email updates 
 about this book club.
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SUMMARY:IFL Classics Book Club: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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