Willow Glen Books -- Women's Book Club (public event)

All women are welcome to attend Willow Glen Books' Women's Book Club, held on the fourth Monday of every month. This evening, we'll be discussing Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes "unstuck in time" after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, Vonnegut shows Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden. Like Catch-22, it fashions the author's experiences in World War II into an eloquent and deeply funny plea against butchery in the service of authority.

Willow Glen Books [View Map]
1330 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose
408-298-8141

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posted by WGBA on 2/20/08