Episode 32: Watching the Flames from Slaughterhouse-Five
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In this episode, the hosts explore the themes and experiences of Billy Pilgrim in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, including his time as a prisoner of war and the Dresden firebombing.
Send us Fan Mail In Episode 32 of the Great American Novel podcast, we slip through time with Billy Pilgrim as we shuffle between the character’s experiences as a prisoner of war and first hand witness to the Dresden firebombing in World War II and then trip the light fantastic to the far flung planet Tralfamadore. Or…do we? Yes, this episode has your intrepid explorers hiding in Kurt Vonnegut’s masterful 1969 post-modern novel SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE. We ponder the author’s central q...
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