A Man Without a CountryA Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut’s hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"), art ("To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."), politics ("I asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton what he thought of our great victory over Iraq and he said, ‘Mohammed Ali versus Mr. Rogers.’"), and the condition of the soul of America today ("What has happened to us?"). Based on short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author throughout, A Man Without a Country gives us Vonnegut both speaking out with indignation and writing tenderly to his fellow Americans, sometimes joking, at other times hopeless, always searching. |
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User Review - Tytania - LibraryThingKurt Vonnegut is really special. He wrote this little slice of his life in 2005, two years before that life would end. "I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as ... Read full review
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User Review - KurtWombat - LibraryThingI believe everyone should read Kurt Vonnegut. I also believe that if you read him at only one time in your life, it should be when you are young. Most of the Vonnegut I have read was before or well ... Read full review
Contents
3 | 23 |
4 | 39 |
Okay now lets have some fun | 47 |
have been called a Luddite | 55 |
turned eightytwo on November 11 | 65 |
8 | 79 |
9 | 95 |
A sappy woman from Ypsilanti | 105 |
11 | 115 |
12 | 125 |
Requiem | 137 |
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References to this book
Cutting and the Pedagogy of Self-disclosure Jeffrey Berman,Patricia Hatch Wallace No preview available - 2007 |