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Title: If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? (Even More) Expanded Third Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By
Author: VONNEGUT KURT
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 03/03/2020
Imprint: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
Price: $33.00
Publishing status: Active
He himself never graduated college, so his words to any class of graduating seniors always carried the delight, and gentle irony, of someone savoring an achievement he himself had not had occasion to savor on his own behalf.
Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? capture this side of Kurt Vonnegut for the first time in book form. There are nine speeches, seven given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the occasion of Vonnegut receiving the Carl Sandburg Award. In each of these talks Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and a conversational voice to say them in that isn’t heavy-handed or pretentious or glib, but funny and serious and joyful even if sometimes without seeming so.
ISBN: 9781609806101
Pages: 208