![]() ![]() This third volume in the Library of America’s definitive edition of his fiction opens with Slapstick, the memoirs of Dr. With the four novels collected here Vonnegut was recognized as an original American classic, the architect of an oeuvre built to last, a body of work tightly joined and cleanly made, designed along lines entirely his own. Out of the sweeping spotlight of popular success emerged the enduring Vonnegut: a satiric fabulist to rival Mark Twain, a comic storyteller whose books are as morally serious as they are imaginative and amusing. ![]() ![]() Order all four LOA Vonnegut volumes in a boxed set and save $35.00!īy 1976, the year that Kurt Vonnegut published his eighth novel, Slapstick, it was apparent that the author of Slaughterhouse-Five was more than a favorite of the sixties’ counterculture, more than an acidly witty public personality and a gadfly of the military-industrial complex-more, even, than one of America’s most widely read living writers. ![]()
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