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The first-ever, critically acclaimed graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five now available in softcover!
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 fear most. Billy Pilgrim’s journey is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be fallibly human. An American classic and one of the world’s seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!).
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 fear most. Billy Pilgrim’s journey is at once a farcical look at the horror and tragedy of war where children are placed on the frontlines and die (so it goes), and a moving examination of what it means to be fallibly human. An American classic and one of the world’s seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Albert Monteys (Universe!).
- ISBN-10160886135X
- ISBN-13978-1608861354
- PublisherArchaia
- Publication dateSept. 26 2023
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions17.15 x 1.52 x 24.13 cm
- Print length192 pages
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Kurt Vonnegut emerged as a novelist and essayist in the 1960s and penned the classic books Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions before 1980. He is known for his satirical literary style, as well as the science-fiction elements in much of his work. Vonnegut is considered one of the most influential American novelists of the twentieth century. He blended literature with science fiction and humor, and the absurd with pointed social commentary. Vonnegut created his own unique world in each of his novels and filled them with unusual characters, such as the alien race known as the Tralfamadorians in Slaughterhouse-Five.
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- Publisher : Archaia
- Publication date : Sept. 26 2023
- Language : English
- Print length : 192 pages
- ISBN-10 : 160886135X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1608861354
- Item weight : 1.05 kg
- Dimensions : 17.15 x 1.52 x 24.13 cm
- Part of Series : Slaughter-House Five
- 鶹 Rank: #73,728 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #23 in Graphic Novel Adaptations
- #46 in Literary Graphic Novels
- #361 in Science Fiction Manga
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Kurt Vonnegut was a writer, lecturer and painter. He was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. First published in 1950, he went on to write fourteen novels, four plays, and three short story collections, in addition to countless works of short fiction and nonfiction. He died in 2007.
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- Reviewed in Canada on January 26, 2024Verified PurchaseMy favourite graphic novel iteration of a classic.
- Reviewed in Canada on January 11, 2023Verified PurchaseI've read the text version of Slaughterhouse Five at least five times, and it was so nice to see a faithful conversion into a graphic novel. Still filled with emotion and strangeness, this graphic novel is a great alternative to the text version... which you should also read!
- Reviewed in Canada on December 1, 2021Verified Purchasethis graphic novel means even more to me today than when i 1st read the novel when i was young. Wonderful.... well done.
- Reviewed in Canada on December 27, 2020Verified PurchaseBeautiful book and a unique way of telling the story. It's good for someone who has read the book and loved it, but has a completely different feel than the book. Don't t think of it as a replacement for. The book, but sometjing a fan would enjoy.
- Reviewed in Canada on February 14, 2025Verified PurchaseIt lacks any of the elements that make the classic novel so great. It is boring, dross, and completely unfinishable. I wish I could return it, but I didn't read it right away.
- Reviewed in Canada on January 14, 2024Verified PurchaseDidnt know it was a comic book.. oops
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- AlfergusReviewed in Australia on May 15, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Graphic and graphic
Verified PurchaseThis book was a favourite of mine and to see it realised in this entirely new way was exciting. The interconnected associations throughout are brought into dynamic focus in the movement allowed by this ebook format. Loved it!
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cesar alejandro navarro lopezReviewed in Mexico on February 16, 2023
5.0 out of 5 stars excelente
Verified Purchasenos recuerda lo absurdo de la vida
- TarikiReviewed in the United Kingdom on November 29, 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good
Verified PurchaseMaybe some would look down on graphic novels, perhaps seeing then as a sign of the decline in educational standards. Picture books! But I've had a few chats with customers at Oxfam and there seems to be an avid readership who enjoy the quality of the graphics, even collecting books by a particular illustrator.
I have a few on my Kindle and the ebook versions are remarkably good, being able to progress the story simply by tapping the image on screen, bringing up the next image in line. And each image can be enlarged by zooming in.
Until recently the best I had was "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", the novel by Hunter S Thompson, illustrated and adapted by Troy Little. The graphics perfectly matched the hallucinogenic story of two guys chasing the "american dream". But a week or so ago I saw a graphic version of Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse 5" , a book I have always intended to read but have never got around to. One small section of the novel I was aware of was where a bombing raid during WW2 was described in reverse order, with the tragic dismemberment of human beings, blown to pieces, is transposed backwards - the people coming back together, the bombs reassembling, going back into the bomb bays, the bombers returning home, the crews returning to being new born babes, the weaponry being unassembled and every part returning to the ground from which it came, once more a part of nature.
This passage had always stayed in my mind but as said, I had never read the whole book. When I saw the graphic edition on Kindle I downloaded a sample for free but balked at the asking price of £13.99. But scanning the sample again I saw "Purchase now at £0.79p". Error or not I tapped to purchase and sure enough was only charged 79p!
I have been reading the book on and off for a few days now. Really excellent, the illustrations quite simple yet they very much complement the balloon bubbles of the text.
The novel revolves around the terrible bombing of Dresden during WW2, when overnight 25,000 civilians died, burnt/blown to bits. The author, Kurt Vonnegut, was actually there, and survived. In the US army, he had been captured by the Germans in 1943 and eventually taken to Dresden where he, and others, were put to work in a slaughterhouse - the Slaughterhouse 5 of the title. Obviously he survived, along with others and four German guards. Coming out of the slaughterhouse (the irony.....) they found and witnessed the devastation around them. Reading between the lines, the experience defined Kurt Vonnegut's life and maybe writing the novel was a way of "coming to terms" with it - if such is possible.
There is a dimension of "non-linear" time throughout the whole story - in line with the excerpt I mentioned before. All events are co-eternal, existing all at once. And yet, necessarily separated and put into sequence by our human experience of a "self". Much to remind me of Dogen, who speaks of firewood and ash, explaining in Dogenese that the ash is not the future of the firewood, nor does the firewood become the ash. Each has their own singular "dharma" moment which must be actualised. ("Genjokoan" - in Japanese, the "actualisation of reality" beyond concepts)
Digressing even more, Dogen takes exception to the oft quoted "emptiness is form and form is emptiness" of Mahayana Buddhism. As Dogen saw it, such is simply conceptual. Reality is not "actualised". Dogen insisted that "form is form" and "emptiness is emptiness"- emptiness is there in form, form is there in emptiness. OK, all gobbledygook no doubt, yet "we are what we understand". But words are words - reality is reality. Actualised or not.
Make of that what you will, but getting back to Slaughterhouse 5, I can certainly recommend the novel. Good graphics and in parts deeply moving - as people despoiled by events, corrupted, can be known in a totally true/real "dharma moment" as a new-born.
As the Good Book says:- "And a little child shall lead them".
I have faith that it can be so.
May true Dharma continue.
No blame. Be kind. Love everything.