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The Writer's Crusade - Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five (Hardcover)
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The Writer's Crusade - Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five (Hardcover)
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The story of Kurt Vonnegut and his beloved masterpiece,
Slaughterhouse-Five, a novel born in the destruction of Dresden in
World War II and written during the tumultuous days of Vietnam
During the Vietnam War, Kurt Vonnegut, after surviving the horrors
of Dresden as a POW during World War II, would lose his temper
while watching the nightly news, point at the screen and shout,
"The liars!" According to his family and friends,
Slaughterhouse-Five was Vonnegut's attempt to exorcize his demons.
"He was writing to save his own life," his daughter Nanette has
said, "and in doing it I think he has saved a lot of lives." Tom
Roston's The Writer's Crusade is a book about how books save lives.
Two decades after World War II had ended, Vonnegut's sixth book
became a significant part of a vital storytelling tradition that
has eased the trauma of war for both the writer and the reader.
Although Slaughterhouse-Five was championed by the anti-war
movement, it became a bulwark for veterans who found in its pages a
voice that spoke to them with an intimate, shared understanding of
wartime PTSD. Mixing together the story of Vonnegut's life, the
writing and publishing of his most enduring work, and forays into
the experiences of soldiers and writers today-people who have made
the novel a touchstone in their lives-The Writer's Crusade is built
on research into Vonnegut's life, from papers and interviews with
his children, scholars, psychologists, and writers, including Tim
O'Brien, Kevin Powers, and Karl Marlantes. This will be a
captivating book for fans of Vonnegut and anyone touched by war and
its aftermath.
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