Rudolf Waltz's principal objection to life was that it was too easy to make horrible mistakes. He was himself to become a double-murderer at the age of twelve - on Mother's Day. This would at least make subsequent mistakes seem fairly trivial. Rudolf's father, Otto Waltz, had in 1910 bought a painting in Vienna from a destitute Adolf Hitler, thereby possibly saving him from starvation for a future generation. He made the further mistake of setting himself up as an artist when he returned from Europe to Midland City, Ohio, where everyone knew Otto couldn't draw for sour apples. He had funds to indulge this grand illusion (in the splendor of a vast converted 'medieval granary' studio, reminiscent of Mount Fujiyama) because his father had made a fortune producing an opium-and-cocaine-laced quack medicine called Saint Elmo's Remedy, popularly known to be 'absolutely harmless unless discontinued'....
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I sann Vonnegut-anda får vi en skruvad berättelse om ett par livsöden i den amerikanska mellanvästern. En gräsrotsberättelse utan direkt handling men som lyckas fläta samman en liten stads historia genom ett fåtal karaktärer på ett sätt som engagerar hela vägen ut. Standard Vonnegut som inte sticker ut varken uppåt eller nedåt, och det är ju inte fy skam.
