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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
1969 - Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte Press, New York - First Edition, First Issue
First edition of Vonnegut’s quintessential anti-war novel, the core of which was formed by his own experience as German prisoner during the two day fire bombing of Dresden in 1945.
‘Utter destruction’, Vonnegut recalls, 'Carnage unfathomable.'
But this is Vonnegut, and as Salman Rushdie says in his brilliant New Yorker article, ‘There is much comedy in it, as there was in everything Kurt Vonnegut wrote, but it does not see war as farcical. It sees war as a tragedy so great that perhaps only the mask of comedy allows one to look it in the eye.’
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1969 - Seymour Lawrence / Delacorte Press, New York - First Edition, First Issue
First edition of Vonnegut’s quintessential anti-war novel, the core of which was formed by his own experience as German prisoner during the two day fire bombing of Dresden in 1945.‘Utter destruction’, Vonnegut recalls, 'Carnage unfathomable.'
But this is Vonnegut, and as Salman Rushdie says in his brilliant New Yorker article, ‘There is much comedy in it, as there was in everything Kurt Vonnegut wrote, but it does not see war as farcical. It sees war as a tragedy so great that perhaps only the mask of comedy allows one to look it in the eye.’

Price HK$ 16,000