Slaughterhouse-Five

From the Publisher HC edition of Slaughterhouse-Five, with the original first-edition cover design. From the Jacket First published in 1969, this masterpiece and American classic is widely considered to be one of the world's greatest war-era books. Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of the human search for meaning in what we fear most. About the Author Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomporable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him, in the words of The New York Times, as "a true artist" with the publication of Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene delcared, "one of the best living American writers." Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.