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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 citizens-especially the young-rather than his own achievements.
Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isn't Nice, What Is? comprise the first and only book of Vonnegut's 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 essays-eighteen 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 isn't heavy-handed or pretentious or glib, but funny, joyful, and serious too, even if sometimes without seeming so.
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 citizens-especially the young-rather than his own achievements.
Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isn't Nice, What Is? comprise the first and only book of Vonnegut's 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 essays-eighteen 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 isn't heavy-handed or pretentious or glib, but funny, joyful, and serious too, even if sometimes without seeming so.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 208 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781609806101 |
| ISBN-10: | 1609806107 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Vonnegut, Kurt |
| Redaktion: | Wakefield, Dan |
| Hersteller: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Maße: | 200 x 143 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 31.03.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,301 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographien |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 208 |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781609806101 |
| ISBN-10: | 1609806107 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Vonnegut, Kurt |
| Redaktion: | Wakefield, Dan |
| Hersteller: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Maße: | 200 x 143 x 22 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 31.03.2020 |
| Gewicht: | 0,301 kg |
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