Hocus Pocus

From the New York Times bestselling author of Slaughterhouse-Five comes an irresistible novel that combines ΓÇ£clever wit with keen social observation…[and] re-establishes Mr. VonnegutΓÇÖs place as the Mark Twain of our timesΓÇ¥ (Atlanta Journal & Constitution). Here is the adventure of Eugene Debs Hartke. HeΓÇÖs a Vietnam veteran,a jazz pianista college professorand a prognosticator of the apocalypse (and other things Earth-shattering). But thatΓÇÖs neither here nor there. Because at Tarkington CollegeΓÇöwhere he teachesΓÇöthe excrement is about to hit the air-conditioning. And itΓÇÖs all EugeneΓÇÖs fault.