Slaughter-House Five Author:Kurt Vonnegut Jr "Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. has written one of the major novels of the year... haunting... irresistible reading... poignant and hilarious, threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement... work of art." - Boston Globe — With Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., author of such classics as Cat's Cradle and... more » God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, takes center stage as one of America's most important writers.« less