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First published: 1962
Pages: 22

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In an America where science has cured aging and death comes only by accident or by choice, the population is held at a fixed number. The arithmetic is simple and merciless: for every child born, a volunteer must agree to die. When a man becomes the father of triplets, he must find three people willing to give up their lives, and the day turns toward tragedy in a hospital waiting room. Vonnegut folds his bleak humor and his unease about progress into a handful of pages, and even the title hides a grim joke, read aloud as the old question of whether to be. A sharp, quick way into one of America's great satirists. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.

About the author

Kurt Vonnegut

Vonnegut was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and held prisoner in Dresden when Allied bombers destroyed the city in February 1945. He and the other prisoners survived inside a meat locker and were then put to work digging bodies out of the rubble. Twenty-three years passed before he could write Slaughterhouse-Five about it.