"billy pilgrim"

1969 · Kurt Vonnegut · 215 pages · Literary Fiction

Slaughterhouse-Five is a short book that punches well above its weight, managing to be deeply funny, deeply horrifying, and quietly devastating across fewer than 250 pages. Vonnegut's non-linear structure isn't a gimmick. It mirrors how trauma actually works, and that insight gives the whole thing its power. One of the few books that earns the word masterpiece without argument.