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SLAPSTICK by KURT VONNEGUT 243 pages . Delacorte...
Love conquers nothing in Kurt Vonnegut's fiction. Instead, love is a strategic withdrawal from a threatening world where even the best intentions can cause suffering and chaos. With Slapstick, that withdrawal seems complete. The novel, a linking of autobiography and fantasy, is an aggressive retreat not only from the complications of society but also from the invention and charm of the author's early novels...
...book, says Vonnegut, "is about what life feels like to me." That feeling might be described as the phantom ache an amputee sometimes has where his limb once was. Vonnegut is keenly aware of the separation between his present and his past-the Indianapolis where he grew up surrounded by members of a large, cultured and comfortable German-American family. Indeed, Slapstick begins with a recollection of flying home a few years ago to attend the funeral of a favorite uncle. Predictably, Vonnegut finds the city has become just another "interchangeable part in the American machine...
...Slapstick, Vonnegut...
Player Piano. Vonnegut presented at the New Boston Repertory Theatre, One Boylston Place in Boston, through July 18. Performances Wednesday through Sunday at 8:08 p.m. Tickets...