Slaughterhouse # 5 - Kurt Vonnegut - science fiction novel
Billy Pilgrim is a wealthy American, is married and has a quiet life. It 's a 
"Billy went to sleep that he was a senile widower and woke up the day of his wedding. Has crossed a threshold in 1955 and was released by another in 1941. He came back through that door and ended in 1963. He has also seen his birth and his death, he says, and lives from time to time all of the events in the meantime. "
Billy has been through a lot in his life, for example, is Trafamaldore been to a planet where any resident is able to jump from one point in his life, without being forced to live "in one direction only." But Billy was also witnessed during his service in the army, one of the blackest pages of World War II: the bombing of Dresden by the Allies.
Even Kurt Vonnegut, the author of the book, has witnessed that terrible bombing, and decided to tell his terrible story with a science fiction novel, filled with comic elements, black humor and a hint of sadness that accompany all the book.
Rice and bitter, comic and tragic mix in this story, thanks to ironic humor, talent and imagination of one of the most famous writers of the United States, a dissident by definition, one that "sends some to say," to anyone.
Written by: Andrea Gaetani
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