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Title:
If this isn't nice, what is? : advice to the young : the graduation speeches / Kurt Vonnegut ; selected and introduced by Dan Wakefield.
ISBN:
9781609805913
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Seven Stories Press, [2014]
Physical Description:
xix, 123 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
General Note:
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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OCLC Number:
ocn866615155
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