THE GOOD WAR AND THE LOUSY LITTLE BOOK, Susan Farrell

Banned, burned, and censored, Kurt Vonnegut’s 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five is widely regarded as one of the greatest (and most controversial) novels of the twentieth century. Fusing vivid biography with popular history and literary analysis, this book tells the fascinating story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it.New archival discoveries and recently released oral histories give us the fullest account yet published of Vonnegut’s real-life prisoner-of-war experiences at Stalag IV-B and Dresden, which heavily influenced Slaughterhouse-5.  Susan Farrell is a Professor of American Literature at the College of Charleston and the founder of the Kurt Vonnegut Society. (Bloomsbury Academic, World Rights, Summer 2026)