Slaughterhouse 5 Adele fluid prose highlighted by passages

fluid prose highlighted by passages of hallucinatory beauty” – Guardian

audio only): in conversation with BFI Video Publishing's Vic Pratt

and accompanied by rare archive photography and ephemera

Released in 1973

painted in his own garden at Giverny

Slaughterhouse 5 Adele fluid prose highlighted by passagesKurt Vonneguts masterpiece, one of the very best anti war novels ever written, a book both beloved and banned. Billy Pilgrim hapless barbers assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier has become unstuck in time. Hiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World