The writer's crusade : Kurt Vonnegut and the many lives of Slaughterhouse-five /
The story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memory. Kurt Vonnegut was twenty years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than two years later, he was captured by the Germans in the single deadliest US engagement of the war, the Battle of t...
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New York :
Abrams Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Kurt Vonnegut, Nazi slayer!
- Slaughterhouse-five and the PTSD prism
- The road to Dresden
- Onwards and upwards
- Writing Slaughterhouse-five, or, this lousy little book
- A reading of Slaughterhouse-five, or, stopping a glacier
- What really happened to Vonnegut in World War II, or, the war parts, anyway
- A history of war trauma
- A PTSD primer and an infinite jester
- What's wrong with Billy?
- Diagnosing Mr. Vonnegut
- Kurt, after the crusade
- Slaughterhouse-five's place in history (despite that whole timelessness thing)
- One last joke.
