Slaughter-house five; (Record no. 3594)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780440180296 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 813 |
| Item number | VON |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vonnegut, Kurt |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Slaughter-house five; |
| Remainder of title | or The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Random House Inc. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1969 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 215 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | INR |
| Price amount | 499.00 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”<br/><br/>An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.”<br/><br/>More than fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut’s portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Fiction |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Historical fiction |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Science fiction |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Bill No | Bill Date | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Total Renewals | Full call number | Accession Number | Checked out | Date last seen | Date checked out | Copy number | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Non-fiction | TB2159 | 12-11-2022 | Indian Institute of Management LRC | Indian Institute of Management LRC | General Stacks | 12/07/2022 | Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. | 342.56 | 6 | 4 | 813 VON | 003900 | 01/19/2025 | 12/20/2024 | 12/20/2024 | 1 | 499.00 | 12/07/2022 | Book |