Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Dell Books, 1973 (Stated 1st Dell Printing). Softbound. 'Slaughterhouse is a kind of evasion—,' remarked Anthony Burgess in a 1974 Playboy interview, 'in a sense, like J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan—in which we're being told to carry the horror of the Dresden bombing, and everything it implies, up to a level of fantasy . . .' When Vonnegut was asked in his own Playboy interview about the utopian implications of the novel's 'notion that all moments in time exist simultaneously', he replied, 'You understand, of course, that everything I say is horses**t.'
Tight, square, uncreased spine has some very subtle creasing and sunning. Former owner name to the first (promotional) leaf, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Light edge-wear and a few small areas of creasing to the covers. 211 pp. Mass-Market Paperbacks.
