God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
$22.37
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
From SlapstickP#39;s Pquot;Turkey FarmPquot; to Slaughterhouse-FiveP#39;s eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt VonnegutP#39;s mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd Pquot;interviews,Pquot; Vonnegut trips down Pquot;the blue tunnel to the pearly gatesPquot; in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, conducting interviews: with Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction worker who died of a heart attack while rescuing his schnauzer from a pit bull, with John Brown, still smoldering 140 years after his death by hanging, with William Shakespeare, who rubs Vonnegut the wrong way, and with socialist and labor leader Eugene Victor Debs, one of VonnegutP#39;s personal heroes.Plt;brPgt;What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes for WNYC, New York CityP#39;s public radio station, evolved into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we live for, and how much it all matters in the end. From the original portrait by his friend Jules Feiffer that graces the cover, to a final entry from Kilgore Trout, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian remains a joy.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781609800734 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1609800737 |
| Author: | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 88g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“A smattering of wit, a splattering of satire, and a plop of colorful commentary. Not to mention Vonnegut’s signature steely irony.” —Providence Sunday Journal
“[A] delightful fictional foray in which Vonnegut, courtesy of Dr. Death, toggles back and forth between life and afterlife, meditating on death by way of very short ‘interviews’ with the likes of Newton, Shakespeare, and a penitent Hitler.” —Globe and Mail
Kurt Vonnegut
Born in 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, Plt;bPgt;KURT VONNEGUTPlt;/bPgt;P#160;was one of the few grandmasters of modern American letters. Called by the Plt;iPgt;New York TimesPlt;/iPgt; P#8220;the countercultureP#8217;s novelist,P#8221; his works guided a generation through the miasma of war and greed that was life in the U.S. in second half of the 20th century. After a stints as a soldier, anthropology PhD candidate, technical writer for General Electric, and salesman at a Saab dealership, Vonnegut rose to prominence with the publication of Plt;iPgt;CatP#8217;s Cradle Plt;/iPgt;in 1963. Several modern classics, including Plt;iPgt;Slaughterhouse-FivePlt;/iPgt;, soon followed. Never quite embraced by the stodgier arbiters of literary taste, Vonnegut was nonetheless beloved by millions of readers throughout the world. P#8220;Given who and what I am,P#8221; he once said, P#8220;it has been presumptuous of me to write so well.P#8221; Kurt Vonnegut died in New York in 2007.
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