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If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By
Best known as one of America’s most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. Not having graduated from college himself, his words to any class of graduating seniors always carried the delight, and gentle irony, of someone savoring an achievement he himself had not had the occasion to savor on his own behalf.
In each of the talks and short essays collected within If This Isn't Nice, What Is? Vonnegut takes careful effort to find the few things worth saying and a controversial voice to say them in that is funny and serious and joyful, even if sometimes without seeming so.