By Kurt Vonnegut
rather a standard, i came late to reading this novel. having enjoyed other offerings of Vonnegut, i was fairly well prepared for a bantering tone, even about what was an admittedly grim subject.
but rather than focusing solely on the tragedy at Dresden, Vonnegut makes a study of a man outside of time and place who is inexorably drawn back to that scene in time and mind. rather than living through it once, and relating the experience in a linear narrative, our Billy Pilgrim is cast about seemingly at random, to live and relive the moments of his life.
part parable, part memoir, part science fiction farce, this novel does embody the classic Vonnegut voice.
Dial Press Trade Paperback (1999), Paperback, 288 pages
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