In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, obscure science fiction writer Kilgore Trout is headed for a calamitous encounter with Dwayne Hoover, an unhinged Pontiac salesman who believes that a story Trout has written is literally true. He will also meet Kurt Vonnegut, the writer who created him, who here skewers the full spectrum of American society and releases some of his best-loved literary creations onto the scene as he clears out his own mental space of accumulated junk, in this wildly imaginative follow-up to Slaughterhouse-Five.

"Brilliant.... It seems, at times, as if Voltaire has returned to satirize the horrors of plastic, disposable America."—Sunday Times (London)