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  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407053578
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
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Slapstick or Lonesome No More




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.

  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407053578
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
Categories:

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Praise for Slapstick or Lonesome No More

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