Slapstick or Lonesome No More

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. von Vonnegut, Kurt