{"product_id":"slaughterhouse-5","title":"Slaughterhouse 5","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A book to read and reread. He is a true artist'' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBilly Pilgrim - hapless barber''s assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHiding in the basement of a slaughterhouse in Dresden, with the city and its inhabitants burning above him, he finds himself a survivor of one of the most deadly and destructive battles of the Second World War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBut when, exactly?\u003cbr\u003eHow did he get here?\u003cbr\u003eAnd how does he get out?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTravel through time and space on the shoulders of Vonnegut himself.\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book about war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eListen to what he has to say: it is of the utmost urgency.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves'' George Saunders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A rare accomplishment... it is a graceful, ferociously humorous, sarcastic and ultimately compassionate parable about man''s power for evil and his capacity for grace'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVintage Quarterbound Classics: Bound to be beautiful\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57394494570878,"sku":"NW9781784879693","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781784879693.jpg?v=1778676861","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/slaughterhouse-5","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}