Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1976-1985 (LOA #252)

Slapstick / Jailbird / Deadeye Dick / Galpagos
With the success of Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Kurt Vonnegut cemented his reputation as Americas funniest and most original satirist. This third volume of the definitive edition of his fiction collects four novels written in the 1970s and 80s, when Vonnegut was at the height of his storytelling powers. Slapstick (1976) takes the form of the post-apocalyptic memoirs of Wilbur Daffodil-11 Swain, architect of a brilliant scheme to rid mankind of loneliness. Jailbird (1979) is a political fable of our time, the biography of a good man who becomes embroiled in several of the worst political scandals of the American Century. Deadeye Dick (1982) depicts a talentless playwrights struggle to atone for the crimes of his youth, and the sins of his country. Galpagos (1985), a favorite of the authors among his books, tells the story of how and why a million years agoduring