If this isn't nice, what is? : advice to the young : the graduation speeches
Best known as one of America’s most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut (1992-2007) was also a celebrated commencement address giver. Vonnegut never graduated from 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. In each of these talks and short essays, Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and a conversational voice to say them in that’s funny and serious and joyful even if sometimes without seeming so
Print Book, English, 2014
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Seven Stories Press, New York, 2014
Teen nonfiction
xix, 123 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781609805913, 1609805917
866615155
Chiefly consists of selected graduation speeches given by Vonnegut at various educational institutions