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A post-apocalyptic farce from cult hero Kurt Vonnegut
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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.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Slapstick (subtitled "Lonesome No More") as well as describing the strange childhood of the Swain twins, also paints a picture of a post apocalyptic world, where new York has been destroyed, and people are camping out in the ground floor of the abandoned Empire State Building.
The damaged male twin has managed to become the last president of the USA with a campaign built on the slogan "Lonesome No More", offering everybody the chance to join new extended families by the addition of new middle names.
The book is another of Kurt's attempts (IMHO) to describe the loneliness and futility of existence, but also that that life has an ironic humorous side. Whilst not dealing with the same big issues as Slaughterhouse 5, it speaks to me of much that is flawed but admirable in the human spirit- and it's bloody funny.
The damaged male twin has managed to become the last president of the USA with a campaign built on the slogan "Lonesome No More", offering everybody the chance to join new extended families by the addition of new middle names.
The book is another of Kurt's attempts (IMHO) to describe the loneliness and futility of existence, but also that that life has an ironic humorous side. Whilst not dealing with the same big issues as Slaughterhouse 5, it speaks to me of much that is flawed but admirable in the human spirit- and it's bloody funny.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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A beautiful, amazing book, about genius, stupidity and human nature that manages to be funny with a bitter irony without ever losing the seriousness and beauty of its convoluted plot. As with all Vonnegut's books, it is told in flashback from the point of view of one of the characters, jumping around in time and referring to the present day in between long narratives of the past. Its stroke of genius is in the 'middle names' system employed by Wilbur Swain as President of America. If you want to get a new middle name for yourself based on the book's system, go to www.kevan.org and click 'Lonesome No More!'
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A (kind of) autobiographical fiction from one of the most absorbing and powerful critics of contemporary America. Kurt Vonnegut capture us with his brilliant imagination, seduces us with his vision of the world, and wonders us with his own special way of dealing with pressing social constraints. Long live Vonnegut.
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Slapstick, or, Lonesome No More
This is the first book I have read by Kurt Vonnegut so had nothing to compare it to. At first I thought of giving the book 3 stars as I did not find it laugh out loud funny. Read more
Published 20 months ago by N. A. Spencer
Satire at it's finest..
...quite possibly my second favourite book by Mr Vonnegut - second only to Mother Night. I would never rate any of his books as side splitting funny, however the observations about... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Simon Kwong
Slapstick
Slapstick, or, Lonesome No More!
Slapstick is a book I have read many times. It's a book I seem to forget about and then remember again when discussing social welfare,... Read more
Slapstick is a book I have read many times. It's a book I seem to forget about and then remember again when discussing social welfare,... Read more
Published on 9 May 2009 by Maya Hiort Petersen
how many great books can one man write
could this possible be the pre-story to the isabelle & nathanial from six feet under?
Published on 10 Oct 2003 by "jammed"
Heart-Warming!
Kurt Vonnegut has wrote a book about a hideously ugly set of twins who are geniuses together but when they are apart they are dim and supid. Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2001
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