If This Isn't Nice, What Is? The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live by

Name: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Auteur: Kurt Vonnegut

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Kurt Vonnegut

Engels
Paperback
9781609806101
31 maart 2020
208 pagina's

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis. He studied at the universities of Chicago and Tennessee and later began to write short stories for magazines. His first novel, Player Piano, was published in 1951 and since then he has written many novels, among them: The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, God Bless You Mr Rosewater, Welcome to the Monkey House; a collection of short stories, Breakfast of Champions, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos, Bluebeard and Hocus Pocus.

During the Second World War he was held prisoner in Germany and was present at the bombing of Dresden, an experience which provided the setting for his most famous work to date, Slaughterhouse Five. He has also published a volume of autobiography entitled Palm Sunday and a collection of essays and speeches, Fates Worse Than Death. Mr. Vonnegut passed away on April 11, 2007.

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For this first-ever paperback edition of If This Isnt Nice, What Is?, the beloved collection of Kurt Vonneguts campus speeches, editor Dan Wakefield has unearthed three early gems as a sort of prequelthe anti-war Moratorium Day speech he gave in Barnstable, Massachusetts, in October 1969, a 1970 speech to Bennington College recommending skylarking, and a 1974 speech to Hobart and William Smith Colleges about the importance of extended families in an age of loneliness.

Vonnegut himself never graduated college, so his words of admonition, advice, and hilarity always carried the delight, gentle irony, and generosity of someone savoring the promise of his fellow citizensespecially the youngrather than his own achievements.

Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isnt Nice, What Is? comprise the first and only book of Vonneguts speeches. There are fourteen speeches, eleven given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the occasion of Vonnegut receiving the Carl Sandburg Award, and now the anti-war speech he gave just months after the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five, as well as from related short personal essayseighteen chapters in all. In each of these, Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and a conversational voice to say them in that isnt heavy-handed or pretentious or glib, but funny, joyful, and serious too, even if sometimes without seeming so.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 31 maart 2020
Aantal pagina's: 208
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Hoofdauteur: Kurt Vonnegut
Hoofdredacteur: Dan Wakefield
Hoofduitgeverij: Seven Stories Press,U.S.

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 142 mm
Product lengte: 203 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 142 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 22 mm
Verpakking lengte: 202 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 525 g

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