If this isn't nice, what is? : advice to the young : the graduation speeches
Vonnegut, Kurt2014
Book
This is a collection of graduation speeches which conveys Vonnegut's recommendations on how to make a difference in the world, his considerable humor, and his thoughts about the religious and cultural figures who most inspired his career.
Main title:
If this isn't nice, what is? : advice to the young : the graduation speeches / Kurt Vonnegut ; selected and introduced by Dan Wakefield.
Author:
Edition:
First Seven Stories Press edition.
Imprint:
New York : Seven Stories Press, c2014.New York : Seven Stories Press, [2014]©2014
Collation:
xix, 123 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Chiefly consists of selected graduation speeches given by Vonnegut at various educational institutions.
Contents:
Baccalaureate -- How to make money and find love! -- Vonnegut gives advice to graduating women (which all men should know about!) -- How to have something most billionaires don't have -- Why you can't stop me from speaking ill of Thomas Jefferson -- How music cures our ills (and there are lots of them) -- Don't despair if you never went to college! -- What the "ghost dance" of the Native Americans and the Cubist movement of French painters had in common -- How Vonnegut learned from a teacher "what artists do" -- Don't forget where you come from -- Vonnegut unstuck; quotes to ponder.
ISBN:
9781609805913 (hardback)
Dewey class:
815.6
LC class:
PS3572.O5
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
24368
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library at the Dock | -Literature | LITER 815.6 VONN | Available |