Program Type:
Book ClubAge Group:
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Program Description
The Freed Between the Lines Book Club meets quarterly and reads banned books. Discussions are held on Thursdays in the Conference Room at 6pm.
Books are available a month ahead of the discussion at the end of the holds shelf. In May we will discuss Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
About the Book
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”
Book Resume (PDF)
Biography, Banning Details, and Discussion Questions (PDF)
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