If This Isn't Nice, What Is?

If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Total Pages : 197
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ISBN-10 : 9781644214749
ISBN-13 : 1644214741
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Book Synopsis If This Isn't Nice, What Is? by : Kurt Vonnegut

Download or read book If This Isn't Nice, What Is? written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as one of our most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. 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.


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Given in memory of Ethel A. Tsutsui, Ph. D. and Minoru Tsutsui, Ph. D.