The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five

Journalist Tom Roston’s The Writer’s Crusade is the story of Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five, an enduring masterpiece on trauma and memory.

“A book about time; or, put another way, a book about how Pilgrim (and Vonnegut) became unstuck in time and how this ‘unsticking’ created Slaughterhouse-Five . . . Roston [casts] himself as part literary scholar and part psychoanalytic sleuth.” —Washington Post

Kurt Vonnegut was 20 years old when he enlisted in the United States Army. Less than ...