Kurt Vonnegut
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Billy Pilgrim, an American soldier captured by the Germans, witnesses firebombing and destruction in Dresden. Launched in November, Dell's Kurt Vonnegut reissue program continues with one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to Read more... Billy Pilgrim, an American...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Kurt Vonnegut strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending. These superb stories share Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision.
3) Cat's Cradle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb.
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book...