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In the opening chapter of slaughterhousefive, kurt vonnegut recounts his being unable to write a war book about the dresden firebombing february 15, 1945, which he survived. Throughout the book, vonnegut includes a lot of traditional limericks to help express his characters point of view, which mr. Editions of slaughterhousefive by kurt vonnegut jr. Slaughterhouse five audiobook free slaughterhouse five free. Browse and download any torrent from the category audio audio books. Slaughterhousefive was hugely successful, brought vonnegut an enormous audience, was a finalist for the national book award and a best seller, and remains four decades later as timeless and shattering a war fiction as catch22, with which it stands as the two signal novels of their riotous and furious decade.
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