Bibliograph

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

Type

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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

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

If this isn't nice, what is?

Responsibility statement

Kurt Vonnegut ; selected and introduced by Dan Wakefield

Sub title

advice to the young : the graduation speeches

Summary

A collection of graduation speeches 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

Table Of Contents

Baccalaureate -- How to make money and find love! -- Advice to graduating women (that all men should know!) -- How to have something most billionaires don't -- 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 French painters who led the Cubist movement have in common -- How I learned from a teacher what artists do -- Don't forget where you come from -- Unstuck in time, quotes to ponder

Target audience

adult

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If this is not nice, what is

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