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Delacorte Press. Publication date. 1976. Media type. Print ( hardcover & paperback) ISBN. 0-385-28944-8. Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. Written in 1976, it depicts Vonnegut's views of loneliness, both on an individual and social scale.
- Kurt Vonnegut
- United States
- 1976
- English
In the prologue, Vonnegut, the author, meditates on the death of his sister, Alice, on loneliness and the assertion that the novel Slapstick itself is autobiographical. Slapstick then is written by the former last president of the United States, Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, from his nearly empty offices in the Empire State Building.
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Jan 12, 2024 · Book Review of Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut, an iconic American writer, was known for his unique blend of satirical wit, social commentary, and science fiction.
The role of the author in slapstick is crucial to the success of the genre. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slapstick, the author not only creates the comedic situations but also provides commentary on society and human nature.
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! is Vonnegut's eighth novel, published by Delacourt on October 1, 1976. It is dedicated to—and opens with a caricature by Al Hirschfeld of—Arthur Stanley Jefferson and Norvell Hardy, better known as Laurel and Hardy, whom Vonnegut calls "two angels".
Vonnegut's 1976 novel Slapstick, which meditates on the relationship between him and his sister (Alice), met a similar fate.
Mar 3, 2021 · Slapstick is Vonnegut’s eighth novel, published well after Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), the novel which launched him into literary stardom. The same style that had elicited such praise in this earlier work—his irreverent humor, his pithy irony, his detached amusement—features largely in Slapstick.
