Name: Slapstick or Lonesome No More!
ISBN: 9780385334235

Who It's For

Good for readers who enjoy Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
Good for readers interested in science

What You Get

Themes: Science, Literature, Century.
Reading lane: Science Fiction.
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group.

About This Book

“Some of the best and most moving Vonnegut.”— San Francisco Chronicle Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today’s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce—a final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us all. “Both funny and sad . . . jus...

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“Some of the best and most moving Vonnegut.”— San Francisco Chronicle Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all-too-possible results of today’s follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Kurt Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce—a final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us all. “Both funny and sad . . . just about perfect.”— Los Angeles Times “Imaginative and hilarious . . . a brilliant vision of our wrecked, wacked-out future.”— Hartford Courant