On the Shelf- Cat’s Cradle

Any list of American literary masters would be incomplete without Kurt Vonnegut. Known for prose that was simultaneously absurd and deadly serious, Vonnegut was deeply affected by his experiences as a soldier in World War II. More specifically, he was psychologically scarred by his survival of the bombing of Dresden, one of the most horrific events in a war full of horrific events. He would write about this experience in some of his non-fiction essays and in his seminal work Slaughterhouse-Fi...