Synopsis

Happy Birthday Wanda June

Happy Birthday Wanda June $10.99

Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Published by Samuel French Inc

A woman with a little boy has two suitors: a doctor and a vacuum cleaner salesman

Her husband, a famous big game hunter and adventurer, disappeared years ago in the Amazon

She is about to be declared a widow when in he walks khaki breeches, puttees and all together with his pilot with whom he had crashed in the Amazon valley

It happens to be his birthday, an event which all those present had decided to celebrate and for which they had just purchased a cake on the spur of the moment

The cake had been intended for somebody named Wanda June, who apparently never got to celebrate at all. The adventurer turns out to be a wild champion of havoc who alienates friends and demolishes violins

He fails in his effort to get his son to shoot him the boy doesn't believe in that kind of old fashioned heroism and then in his own effort to shoot himself

He is a social flop out

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"Can be richly and often pertinently funny ... [with] a sure instinct for the carefully considered irrelevance.... A great deal of incidental hilarity ... [and] inspired idiocy" ~ N.Y. Times

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