Slaughterhouse-Five (or The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death) CD Audiobook - Unabridged - Read by Ethan Hawke - 5 Discs Condition: Ex-library audiobook with library stickers, wear on plastic on case, discs has light wear from use Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five 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, we follow 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.