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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.
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9781609805913 (hardback)
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Vonnegut, Kurt
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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.
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.
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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.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Baccalaureate addresses
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Wakefield, Dan
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