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If this isn't nice, what is? : advice to the young : the graduation speeches / Kurt Vonnegut ; selected and introduced by Dan Wakefield.

If this isn't nice, what is? : advice to the young : the graduation speeches / Kurt Vonnegut ; selected and introduced by Dan Wakefield.
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ISBN 9781609805913 (hardback)
Name Vonnegut, Kurt author.
Uniform title Speeches. Selections
Title If this isn't nice, what is? : advice to the young : the graduation speeches / Kurt Vonnegut ; selected and introduced by Dan Wakefield.
Edition First Seven Stories Press edition.
Published New York : Seven Stories Press, [2014]
©2014
Description 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.
Summary 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.
Subjects Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Baccalaureate addresses
Other Names Wakefield, Dan writer of introduction.
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