TY - BOOK AU - Vonnegut,Kurt TI - Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death SN - 0385333846 (pbk.) AV - PS 3572 V947s 2005 U1 - 813.5 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Dial Press KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Fiction KW - Novela estadounidense KW - Guerra mundial II, 1939-1945 KW - Novela KW - War stories KW - gsafd KW - Science fiction N1 - ""A fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "the Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from peace." N2 - Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal present ER -