Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
Random House
Paperback
*KRISTEN’S PICK!*
And now, for something completely different. Slapstick was the first Vonnegut I read, (took it off of my parents bookshelves as a preteen) and still one of my faves. This is the first book with "adult themes" I remember reading (not sex, get your minds out of the gutter) it careens between humor, tenderness, science fiction, and satire in a way that thrilled my adolescent self, and still does. Come for the prologue, (I wouldn't hesitate to rank it as some of Vonnegut's best, most affecting writing) but stay for the "Chinese plague" that is timely, in a not what you would expect kind of way. If other plague reading has given you the blues, this is the wry, melancholy cure.
Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as 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 Kurt Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce—a final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us all.
Random House
Paperback
*KRISTEN’S PICK!*
And now, for something completely different. Slapstick was the first Vonnegut I read, (took it off of my parents bookshelves as a preteen) and still one of my faves. This is the first book with "adult themes" I remember reading (not sex, get your minds out of the gutter) it careens between humor, tenderness, science fiction, and satire in a way that thrilled my adolescent self, and still does. Come for the prologue, (I wouldn't hesitate to rank it as some of Vonnegut's best, most affecting writing) but stay for the "Chinese plague" that is timely, in a not what you would expect kind of way. If other plague reading has given you the blues, this is the wry, melancholy cure.
Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as 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 Kurt Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce—a final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us all.
Random House
Paperback
*KRISTEN’S PICK!*
And now, for something completely different. Slapstick was the first Vonnegut I read, (took it off of my parents bookshelves as a preteen) and still one of my faves. This is the first book with "adult themes" I remember reading (not sex, get your minds out of the gutter) it careens between humor, tenderness, science fiction, and satire in a way that thrilled my adolescent self, and still does. Come for the prologue, (I wouldn't hesitate to rank it as some of Vonnegut's best, most affecting writing) but stay for the "Chinese plague" that is timely, in a not what you would expect kind of way. If other plague reading has given you the blues, this is the wry, melancholy cure.
Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as 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 Kurt Vonnegut’s pen into hilarious farce—a final slapstick that may be the Almighty’s joke on us all.