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Slapstick or Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut

Slapstick or Lonesome No More!

A Novel

Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Random House Publishing Group · Print & ebook · May 11, 1999

“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.

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Who it’s for
A darkly funny, off-kilter ride where science fiction and absurdity keep elbowing each other.
Genres
Funny Sci-Fi, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Satire
Published
Random House Publishing Group, May 11, 1999

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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.

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“Both funny and sad . . . just about perfect.”—Los Angeles Times “Imaginative and hilarious . . . a brilliant vision of our wrecked, wacked-out future.”—Hartford Courant

Off-Kilter Futurism

A darkly funny, off-kilter ride where science fiction and absurdity keep elbowing each other.

Come here for

  • Vonnegut’s dry, lopsided humor
  • A sci-fi frame that keeps wobbling

Expect

  • Apocalyptic aftertaste
  • Sharp, comic detours

Where it sits

Satire84%
Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic72%
Funny Sci-Fi40%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Literary Fiction
  • Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
  • Satire
Authors
Kurt Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published
May 11, 1999
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Literary Fiction