Slapstick or Lonesome No More

Kurt Vonnegut

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English

Vintage
06 December 1991

Fiction & Literature; Science fiction; Fantasy

A post-apocalyptic farce from cult hero Kurt Vonnegut

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.

By: Kurt Vonnegut
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 160g
ISBN: 9780099842705
ISBN 10: 009984270X
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 06 December 1991
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Slapstick or Lonesome No More

Plus ca change, well just what? Well, the And so ons and ETCs of Breakfast of Champions to Hi Ho, even if he was going to give up Hi Ho after about the fifth one. This is Vonnegut as you knew and loved him, or didn't, with the reductivist simplicities and more than faintly identifiable referrals and the one-pea-in-a-peapod story. As daydreamed by Kurt en route to the funeral of his uncle with his older brother (a couple of nice old Andy Gumps - he finessed you out of that comic strip put-down, didn't he?). The fantasy's about a crazed old pediatrician-centenarian Wilbur Daffodil-II Swain who had a twin sister Eliza and when they put their heads together they were geniuses and when they were apart they were very slow non-learners. But finally the're separated for good and Wilbur - with the help of tribenzo-Deportamils and his Lonesome No More slogan - becomes President of the US. This is truly the work of children. Truly. But then you'll either accord it a smile or a hi-ho-hum in the bum since reactions to Vonnegut are as immiscible as oil and rosewater. (Kirkus Reviews)