From the New York Timesbestselling author of Slaughterhouse-Five comes anirresistible novel thatcombinesclever wit with keen social observation…[and]re-establishes Mr. Vonneguts place as the Mark Twain of our times (Atlanta Journal & Constitution). Here is the adventure of Eugene Debs Hartke. Hes a Vietnam veteran, a jazz pianist, a college professor, and a prognosticator of the apocalypse (and other things Earth-shattering). But thats neither here nor there. Because at Tarkington Collegewhere he teachesthe excrement is about to hit the air-conditioning. And its all Eugenes fault.