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Classics Book Discussion: Slaughterhouse-Five In-Person
The Classics Book Discussion Group meets the last Wednesday of every month at 7 PM. Registration is not required.
November: Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”
- Date:
- Wednesday, November 18, 2026 Show more dates
- Time:
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Community Room
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Adult Program Book Discussion