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Slapstick or Lonesome No More

Slapstick or Lonesome No More

by KurtVonnegut (Author)

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    Paperback 1991

    $4.80

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    Paperback 1999

    $17.73
Synopsis

Manhattan has become the Island of Death. The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a cooking fire in the lobby of the Empire State Building. He is Dr Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain and Slapstick or Lonesome No More! is his story - one of monstrous twins, orgies, revenge, golf, utopian schemes, and very little tooth brushing. In this post-apocalyptic black comedy - dedicated to Laurel and Hardy - Vonnegut is at his most hilarious, grotesque, and personal.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 17 Oct 1991
ISBN 10: 009984270X
ISBN 13: 9780099842705
Book Overview: A post-apocalyptic farce from cult hero Kurt Vonnegut

Media Reviews
The non-stop invention, the jokes and clowning are in the familiar Vonnegut tradition * Daily Telegraph *
Wittily and engagingly written * Guardian *
A brilliant wacky ideas-monger * Observer *
A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny * Financial Times *
One of the master alchemists of modern American fiction * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of war in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired the canonic war novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He is the author of thirteen other novels, which include Cat's Cradle, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos and Bluebeard, two collections of stories, and three non-fiction books. He died in 2007.