“Both funny and sad…just about perfect!”–Los Angeles
Times
KURT VONNEGUT is a master of contemporary
American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and
incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention
in The Sirens of Titanin 1959 and established
him as “a true artist”* with Cat’s Cradlein
1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, “one of the best
living American writers.”
Slapstick presents
an apocalyptic vision 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 Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce (a
final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us
all.)
“Vonnegut’s ongoing puppet show…that fabulous
is reborn.”–John Updike
“Imaginative and
hilarious…a brilliant vision of our wrecked, wacked-out
future.”–Hartford Courant
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