Books

September, 1990

A few months ago, Kurt Vonnegut wrote an essay for the New York Times Book Review about why American humorists ceased to be funny as they grew older and cited himself as an example of this phenomenon. Happily, his funny new novel, Hocus Pocus (Putnam's), proves him wrong.Hocus Pocus is every bit as humorous as Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, Breakfast of Champions or any of Vonnegut's other comic masterpieces. Although his books have never been knee-slappers, Vonnegut evokes the cynical chort...

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