βBoth funny and sadβ¦just about perfect!ββLos Angeles Times
KURT VONNEGUT is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured Americaβs attention in The Sirens of Titanin 1959 and established him as βa true artistβ* with Catβs Cradlein 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, βone of the best living American writers.β
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 todayβs follies. But even the end of life-as-we-know-it is transformed by Vonnegutβs pen into hilarious farce (a final slapstick that may be the Almightyβs joke on us all.)
βVonnegutβs ongoing puppet showβ¦that fabulous is reborn.ββJohn Updike
βImaginative and hilariousβ¦a brilliant vision of our wrecked, wacked-out future.ββHartford Courant
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