Book description
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.
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied
biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in
Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an
experience which inspired
Slaughterhouse Five
. He died in 2007.
