Mill House Book Club
1:00 pm - 3rd Wednesday of the Month
The Nutman
1333 State Road 175, Suite B, Hubertus, WI
All are Welcome to Attend
Questions? Call Jeanne at 262-628-0757
May 15, 2024
Title: Slaughterhouse-Five
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
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.”
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June 19: The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
