Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Description

The follow-up to Slaughterhouse-Five and the only play written by cult writer Kurt Vonnegut For eight years, big game hunter and war hero Harold Ryan has been presumed dead, lost in the Amazon rainforest while hunting for diamonds. Now he's back, only to find his wife engaged to a hippy doctor and his son transformed into a pampered sissy. Though his hunting trophies remain, an inexplicable birthday cake sits in the living room bearing a strange icing inscription- Happy Birthday Wanda June. Can the household bear the returning force of Harold's machismo? And who on earth is Wanda June?

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. He died in 2007.

Flashes of plain wisdom that made his writing so dear to so many * Los Angeles Times * The wittiest man since Groucho Marx and the wisest since Karl Marx * The Times *