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If this isn't nice, what is? : advice to the young : the graduation speeches
- Title
- If this isn't nice, what is? : advice to the young : the graduation speeches / Kurt Vonnegut ; selected and introduced by Dan Wakefield.
- Author
- Vonnegut, Kurt.
- Publication
- New York : Seven Stories Press, [2014]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 14-3383 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Wakefield, Dan.
- Description
- xix, 123 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Chiefly consists of selected graduation speeches given by Vonnegut at various educational institutions"--
- Uniform Title
- Speeches. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Speeches.
- Subjects
- Note
- 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 artists do" -- Don't forget where you come from -- Vonnegut unstuck; quotes to ponder.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-3383
- ISBN
- 9781609805913 (hardcover)
- 1609805917 (hardcover)
- 9780795333637 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013050689
- OCLC
- 866615155
- 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.
- Publisher
- New York : Seven Stories Press, [2014]
- Edition
- First Seven Stories Press Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Wakefield, Dan.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-3383