**From the *New York Times *bestselling author of* Slaughterhouse-Five *comes an irresistible novel that combines “clever wit with keen social observation…[and] re-establishes Mr. Vonnegut’s place as the Mark Twain of our times” ( ** *Atlanta Journal & Constitution*** **).** **
Here is the adventure of Eugene Debs Hartke. He’s a Vietnam veteran, a jazz pianist, a college professor, and a prognosticator of the apocalypse (and other things Earth-shattering). But that’s neither here nor there. Because at Tarkington College—where he teaches—the excrement is about to hit the air-conditioning. And it’s all Eugene’s fault.