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Автор: VONNEGUT KURT
Год: 2014
Издание:
Seven Stories Press
Страниц: [не указано]
ISBN: 9781609805913
Best known as one of America's most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. Vonnegut never graduated 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. "But about my Uncle Alex, who is up in Heaven now," Vonnegut, an avowed Humanist, would say sometimes in a graduation speech, "one of the things he found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when they were happy. He himself did his best to acknowledge it when times were sweet. We couldbe drinking lemonade in the shade of an apple tree in the summertime, and Uncle Alex would interrupt the conversation to say, 'If this isn't nice, what is?'" Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, If This Isn't Nice, What Is? includes nine of Kurt Vonnegut's speeches, seven...
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