CB_Read's Reviews > The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five

Tom Roston delivers a compelling case for reading Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" as both a narrative of and metaphor for PTSD induced by the experiences of war. He then uses this analysis to center "Slaughterhouse Five" as a key influence on a new generation of veterans and how they write about their experiences of war. One does not have to have read the novel recently, or at all, to understand and appreciate the insights that Roston brings to light. As a fan of Vonnegut's other books, this presented a fuller picture of the author for me, and allowed me to better understand what many people consider, and what may well be, his masterpiece.