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Lonesome Again: Vonnegut and the America I Left with $400
Paperback
ISBN13: 9783692440361
Publisher: Wedgwood Press
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1963, Kurt Vonnegut gave America the granfalloon: a group that announces belonging without requiring much of its members. Thirteen years later, in Slapstick, he imagined a damaged president attempting the opposite-giving every citizen an artificial extended family and declaring the country Lonesome No More!
M. Maurice Hawkesworth reads those novels against the America he knew: Indianapolis summers beside the RCA plant, the collapse of Midwestern industry, leaving the country with four hundred dollars, and the modern transformation of loneliness into politics, algorithms, and permanent affiliation.
Part memoir, part literary criticism, and part cultural diagnosis, Lonesome Again asks what separates a community from a crowd, a family from a label, and genuine belonging from the systems that merely promise it.
Vonnegut did not predict the modern world. He recognized the pressures that would produce it.
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