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Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
by Vonnegut, Kurt
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library. As New with no dust jacket. 1976. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Leather. Stated First Edition (preceding the Delacorte trade edition). Includes a special author's message to subscribers not found in the trade edition. Publisher's full brown cloth, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration in compartments, gilt decoration and borders on covers, moire silk endpapers, a.e.g., silk ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with full-page plates by Robert Andrew Parker.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. AS NEW.. B&W Plates. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xii), 256, (1) pp .
Synopsis
The book explores one of Vonnegut's favorite recurring themes, which is his belief in our need to belong extended families and how they would be an adequate, larger and more useful substitute for biological ones. The most endearing section of the novel, in my opinion, lies in its introduction, where Vonnegut candidly describes his beloved sister's death, which took place shortly after she had learnt of a train accident where her husband and children had been killed. As for the novel's plot, it follows the relationship of a boy and his sister who grow up together in isolation from the outside world because of their unsightliness. The boy turns out to be seen as more presentable and is separated from his sister, who grows to resent him for his seemingly desertion. Through some twists and turns they successively reunite and separate and after a major catastrophe, the boy becomes president of the United States, his campaign being centered on the formation of extended families on a grand scale.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13440
- Title
- Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
- Author
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Illustrator
- Robert Andrew Parker
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- Stated First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Literature;, Novels;, Fine Binding;, First Edition;, Fiction;, Kurt Vonnegut;
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Palatine, Illinois
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