{"product_id":"slaughterhouse-5-kurt-vonnegut-9781784879693","title":"Slaughterhouse 5","description":"A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century.\n'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New York Times\nBilly Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time.\nHiding 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 War.\nBut when, exactly?\nHow did he get here?\nAnd how does he get out?\nTravel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself.\nThis is a book about war.\nListen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.\n'The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves' George Saunders\n'A rare accomplishment... it is a graceful, ferociously humorous, sarcastic and ultimately compassionate parable about man's power for evil and his capacity for grace' Sunday Times\nVintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50137741426976,"sku":"9781784879693","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781784879693.jpg?v=1768907491","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/slaughterhouse-5-kurt-vonnegut-9781784879693","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}