Description

Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing, and the writing of others. An indignant, outrageous, witty, deeply felt collection of reviews, essays, and speeches, this is a window not only into Vonneguts mind but also into his heart.

A book filled with madness and truth and absurdity and self-revelation . . . [Vonnegut is] a great cosmic comedian and rattler of human skeletons, an idealist disguised as a . Louis Post-Dispatch

Includes the following essays, speeches, and works:

Science Fiction
Brief Encounters on the Inland Waterway
Hello, Star Vega
Teaching the Unteachable
Yes, We Have No Nirvanas
Fortitude
Theres a Maniac Loose Out There’
Excelsior! Were Going to the Moon! Excelsior!
Address to the American Physical Society
Good Missiles, Good Manners, Good Night
Why They Read Hesse
Oversexed in Indianapolis
The Mysterious Madame Blavatsky
Biafra: A People Betrayed
Address to Graduating Class at Bennington College, 1970
Torture and Blubber
Address to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1971
Reflections on my Own Death
In a Manner that Must Shame God Himself
Thinking Unthinkable, Speaking Unspeakable
Address at Rededication of Wheaton College Library, 1973
Invite Rita Rait to America!
Address to P.E.N. Conference in Stockholm, 1973
A Political Disease
Playboy Interview

Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 01/12/1999
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.09h x 5.31w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780385333818
Language: English