Slapstick or Lonesome No More

Description

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.

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.

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 *