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Author:

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Title:

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.

Publisher:

Seven Stories Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xix, 123 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Baccalaureate addresses.

Other Authors:

Wakefield, Dan.

Other Titles:

Speeches. Selections

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 artistsdo" -- Don't forget where you come from -- Vonnegut unstuck; quotes to ponder.

ISBN:

1609805917 : HRD
9781609805913 : HRD

LCCN:

2013050689

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)