Slapstick or Lonesome No More

Author: Vonnegut, Kurt

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 17 October 1991 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.

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.