Slapstick or Lonesome No More!By: Kurt Vonnegut Some of the best and most moving Vonnegut.San Francisco Chronicle Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan (and last President of the United States), a wickedly irreverent look at the all too possible results of todays follies. But even the end of life as we know it is transformed by Kurt Vonneguts pen into hilarious farcea final slapstick that may be the Almightys joke on us