Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death by Kurt Vonnegut

Author:Kurt Vonnegut
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Criticism, Historical - General, War stories, Classics, Free will and determinism, Historical fiction, 1939-1945, General, Literary, Science Fiction, Science Fiction - General, Historical, War & Military, Literature - Classics, World War, Time travel, Fiction
ISBN: 9780385333849
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 1969-01-15T08:00:00+00:00

Billy traveled in time back to the veterans’ hospital again. The blanket was over his head. It was quiet outside the blanket. “Is my mother gone?” said Billy.

“Yes.”

Billy peeked out from under his blanket. His fiancée was out there now, sitting on the visitor’s chair. Her name was Valencia Merble. Valencia was the daughter of the owner of the Ilium School of Optometry. She was rich. She was as big as a house because she couldn’t stop eating. She was eating now. She was eating a Three Musketeers Candy Bar. She was wearing tri-focal lenses in harlequin frames, and the frames were trimmed with rhinestones. The glitter of the rhinestones was answered by the glitter of the diamond in her engagement ring. The diamond was insured for eighteen hundred dollars. Billy had found that diamond in Germany. It was booty of war.

Billy didn’t want to marry ugly Valencia. She was one of the symptoms of his disease. He knew he was going crazy when he heard himself proposing marriage to her, when he begged her to take the diamond ring and be his companion for life.

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