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unusual facts about Slaughterhouse Five



Drake, North Dakota

The school board ordered books considered obscene including Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Deliverance by James Dickey assigned to the sophomore English class be confiscated and burned in 1973.

Reverse chronology

Amis writes in the Afterword that he had a "certain paragraph" from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five (1969), in mind.


see also

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

The title of the album is a reference to Billy Pilgrim's epitaph in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

Island Trees School District v. Pico

According to footnote 3 of the ruling, the books at issue have included Slaughterhouse-Five, The Naked Ape, Down These Mean Streets, Go Ask Alice, and The Fixer.

The Execution of Private Slovik

In Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim finds an abandoned copy of William Bradford Huie's book and reads through it while in a waiting room.