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PublisherSeven Stories Press
ISBN-101609806972
ISBN-139781609806972
eBay Product ID (ePID)215898651
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Book TitleIf This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition : The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By
Number of Pages188 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSpeeches, American / General, Essays
Publication Year2016
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight13.1 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2020-006320
Selected byWakefield, Dan
Dewey Edition23
Reviews" If This Isn't Nice, What Is? is a spectacular read in its entirety, brimming with Vonnegut's unflinching convictions and timeless advice to the young." --Maria Popova, Brain Pickings "Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut's crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted." --A.O. Scott, New York Times Book Review "Like so much of Vonnegut's work, these speeches combine absurdist humor, pessimism and countercultural politics, with improbably and disarmingly charming results." --Troy Jollimore, Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal " If This Isn't Nice, What Is? is a blast of pure acid." -- Entertainment Weekly "These delightful scattershot commencement speeches offer fresh clues to what lay behind Kurt Vonnegut's twinkly visage--clues that are well worth celebrating." --Peter Matthiessen
Dewey Decimal815.54
SynopsisBest known as one of America's most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. If This Isn't Nice, What Is? collects the speeches and words of wisdom Vonnegut has shared with new graduates over the years. This much-expanded edition now includes a total of 15 of Vonnegut's speeches. In each, Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and a conversational voice to say them in that isn't heavy-handed, pretentious or glib, but funny, serious and joyful., Best known as one of America's most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. Vonnegut never graduated from 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. "But about my Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now," Vonnegut, an avowed Humanist, would say sometimes in a graduation speech, "one of the things he found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when they were happy. . . . We could be drinking lemonade in the summertime, and Uncle Alex would interrupt the conversation to say, 'If this isn't nice, what is?'" If This Isn't Nice, What Is? includes eleven speeches and four pieces of journalism on related themes. Six of the fifteen are new to the second edition--on topics as wide-ranging as why it is that Kurt Vonnegut's dog loves people more than Kurt Vonnegut does, and what it feels like to be the most censored writer in America --and much, much more. In each of these talks and short essays, Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and a conversational voice to say them in that's funny and serious and joyful even if sometimes without seeming so.
LC Classification NumberPS3572.O5
