Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. (Vol. 1) - Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. 1922–2007
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. 1922–2007
American novelist, author of Cat's Cradle, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, and Slaughterhouse-Five. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Slaughterhouse-Five is written with nerve-racking control: a funny book at which you are not permitted to laugh, a sad book without tears, a book of carefully strangled emotions. A tale told in a slaughterhouse.
Wilfrid Sheed, "Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969), in his The Morning After (reprinted with the permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.; © 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 by Wilfrid Sheed; © 1968 by Postrib Corp.; foreword © 1971 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.), Farrar, Straus, 1971, pp. 276-79.
Kurt Vonnegut's new novel [Slaughterhouse-Five] may not be as satisfying to his young audience as the other novel he has written for...
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