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If this isn't nice, what is? : advice to the young : the graduation speeches  Cover Image Book Book

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

Vonnegut, Kurt. (Author). Wakefield, Dan. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Chiefly consists of selected graduation speeches given by Vonnegut at various educational institutions"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781609805913 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 1609805917 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xix, 123 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First Seven Stories Press Edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Seven Stories Press, [2014]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Chiefly consists of selected graduation speeches given by Vonnegut at various educational institutions.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- 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 had in common -- How I learned from a teacher what artists do -- Don't forget where you come from -- Unstuck in time : quotes to ponder.
Subject: Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Baccalaureate addresses.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Kirtland Community College Library PS 3572 .O5 A6 2014 30775305496185 General Collection Available -


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