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

Slapstick or Lonesome No More

Formats & editions
EBook
1 Sep 2010
Paperback
6 Dec 1991
Buy from…
Amazon Apple Books Google Play Kobo Booktopia eBooks.com

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:

Also by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse 5
Cat's Cradle: Popular Penguins
Breakfast of Champions
Player Piano
Welcome to the Monkey House
Love, Kurt
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Even More) Expanded Third Edition
See all

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
penguin pop image
penguin pop image