The writer's crusade : Kurt Vonnegut and the many lives of Slaughterhouse-five

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"In The Writer's Crusade, author Tom Roston examines the connection between Vonnegut's life and Slaughterhouse-Five. Did Vonnegut suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder? Did Billy Pilgrim? Roston probes Vonnegut's work, his personal history, and discarded drafts of the novel,...

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Main Author: Roston, Tom (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Abrams Press, 2021.
Series:Books about books.
Subjects:
Vonnegut, Kurt. > Slaughterhouse-five.
Vonnegut, Kurt > Appreciation.
Vonnegut, Kurt.
Slaughterhouse-five (Vonnegut, Kurt)
1900-1999
Post-traumatic stress disorder in literature.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.
Art appreciation.
Authors, American.
Biography.
Biographies.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Table of Contents:
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Nazi slayer!
  • Slaughterhouse-five and the PTSD prism
  • The road to Dresden
  • Onwards and upwards
  • Writing Slaughter-house-five, or, This lousy little book
  • A reading of Slaughterhouse-five, or, Stopping a glacier
  • What really happened to Vonnegut in World War II, or, the war parts, anyway
  • A history of war trauma
  • A PTSD primer and the infinite jester
  • What's wrong with Billy?
  • Diagnosing Mr. Vonnegut
  • Kurt, after the crusade
  • Slaughterhouse-five's place in history (despite that whole timelessness thing)
  • One last joke
  • Author note
  • A non-Tralfamadorian timeline of Vonnegut's life.

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