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Slapstick

Slapstick

Or Lonesome No More!

by Kurt Vonnegut
Publication Date: 02/01/1992

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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.
ISBN:
9780440180098
9780440180098
Category:
Fiction
Publication Date:
02-01-1992
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
170.69x107.44x18.03mm
Weight:
0.13kg
Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. An army intelligence scout during the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans and witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

After the war he worked as a police reporter, an advertising copywriter and a public relations man for General Electric. His first novel Player Piano (1952) achieved underground success. Cat's Cradle (1963) was hailed by Graham Greene as 'one of the best novels of the year by one of the ablest living authors'.

His eighth book, Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969 and was a literary and commercial success, and was made into a film in 1972. Vonnegut is the author of thirteen other novels, three collections of stories and five non-fiction books. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.

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