Dial Press (Random House) paperback edition, the print is easy on the eyes.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) writes in a clear, conversational, easy-to-follow style. He carved out
a distinctive place in American fiction: a wide-ranging satirist and mordant humorist with a moral
message, who appropriated science fiction in telling his stories and freely mixed details of his
own life with imagined people, places, and events. As a young soldier in World War II, he
survived the Battle of the Bulge and, as a POW in Dresden, survived the Allied firebombing that
destroyed the city and killed 25,000 people. Slaughterhouse-Five is his literary testament to
that experience and a cautionary tale.