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Ilium, Iowa City: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five
October 23, 2013 For someone interested in the twentieth-century epic, Slaughterhouse Five is a no-brainer. How else would one call a story set in Ilium, talking about war, about death and the counterfactual? But did I ever stop to think about … Continue reading
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Tagged Dresden firebombing, Floods 2013, Guggenheim Fellowship, Iliad, Ilium, Iowa City, John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, Prairie Lights Bookstore, Slaughterhouse-Five, World War II
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