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(3.92) | None | Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time. An otherwise typical soldier in WWII, without warning, he jumps back and forth in his life with no control over where he is going next. Sometimes he is an ophthalmologist at home in suburbia; deep in World War II Europe, surviving the Allied bombing of Dresden; on the planet Tralfamadore, being held captive by aliens in an intergalactic zoo--accompanied by a porn star. In the end, he learns that the many tragic and sometimes funny ironies of life--the randomness of tragedy, the cruelty and senselessness of war, and man's complete lack of control over his fate--remain constant.… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Hill, George Roy | Director | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Geller, Stephen | Screenwriter | main author | all editions | confirmed | Lang, Jennings | Producer | main author | all editions | confirmed | Monash, Paul | Producer | main author | all editions | confirmed | Ondrícek, Miroslav | Director of Photography | main author | all editions | confirmed | Vonnegut, Kurt | Novel | main author | all editions | confirmed | Blossom, Roberts | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Booke, Sorrell | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Bumstead, Henry | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Conway, Kevin | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Dehner, John | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Dehner, John | — | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Gans, Sharon | — | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Gans, Sharon | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Gottlieb, Stan | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | King, Perry | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | King, Perry | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Leibman, Ron | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lucille Benson | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Near, Holly | — | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Near, Holly | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Perrine, Valerie | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Perrine, Valerie | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Roche, Eugene | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Roche, Eugene | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Ron Leibman | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Sacks, Michael | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Sacks, Michael | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Schaal, Richard | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Stahl, Richard | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Wood, John | Actor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time. An otherwise typical soldier in WWII, without warning, he jumps back and forth in his life with no control over where he is going next. Sometimes he is an ophthalmologist at home in suburbia; deep in World War II Europe, surviving the Allied bombing of Dresden; on the planet Tralfamadore, being held captive by aliens in an intergalactic zoo--accompanied by a porn star. In the end, he learns that the many tragic and sometimes funny ironies of life--the randomness of tragedy, the cruelty and senselessness of war, and man's complete lack of control over his fate--remain constant. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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