If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition:

If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

Best known as one ofÂ Americaâ€™s most astonishingÂ and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebratedÂ 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.
â€œBut about my Uncle Alex, who is upÂ in Heaven now,â€ Vonnegut, an avowedÂ Humanist, would say sometimes in a graduation speech, â€œone of the things he found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when they were happy. . . . We could be drinking lemonade in the summertime, and Uncle Alex would interrupt the conversation to say, â€˜If this isnâ€™t nice, what is?â€™â€

If This Isnâ€™t Nice, What Is? includes eleven speeches and four pieces of journalism on related themes. Six of the fifteen are new to the second editionâ€”on topics as wide-ranging as why it is that Kurt Vonnegutâ€™s dog loves people more than Kurt Vonnegut does, and what it feels like to be the most censored writer in Americaâ€”and much, much more.

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 thatâ€™s funny and serious and joyful even if sometimes without seeming so.
Country USA
Brand Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer Seven Stories Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber YES19547150
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2016-04-26
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9781609806972

Country	USA
Brand	Seven Stories Press
Manufacturer	Seven Stories Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	YES19547150
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	2016-04-26
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9781609806972

If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

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