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

By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Book Overview

Best known as one of America's most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. If This Isn't Nice, What Is? collects the speeches and words of wisdom Vonnegut has shared with new graduates over the years. This much-expanded edition now includes a total of 15 of Vonnegut's speeches. In each, Vonnegut takes pains to find the few things worth saying and a conversational voice to say them in that isn't heavy-handed, pretentious or glib, but funny, serious and joyful.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609806972
• ISBN13: 9781609806972
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.1"