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In a collection of brief autobiographical essays, the renowned novelist offers his views on art, politics, and everyday life in America. A 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?"). Gleaned from short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author in full color 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.… (más)
CGlanovsky: The authors' parting shots on their lives and times, especially their somewhat pessimistic opinions regarding the prevailing political situations.
I think it's the last book he published before his death, so he even sounds older and crankier in his writing. It's a nice short read (maybe an hour of time), and I can just hear him speaking to a crowd about how the Bush era screwed up so much (I'd be curious to hear his opinions about Obama, but sadly he's no longer with us). ( )
I think it's the last book he published before his death, so he even sounds older and crankier in his writing. It's a nice short read (maybe an hour of time), and I can just hear him speaking to a crowd about how the Bush era screwed up so much (I'd be curious to hear his opinions about Obama, but sadly he's no longer with us). ( )
A look at the country (but not his) of 2005. A cynical, humorous, personal look at the hell that politics and our government were during the mid-2000s. KV would surely be bitter at what is going on now. ( )
This was the last book that Vonnegut published before his death, and he grumbles his way through it, sure that the world is dying along with him. While he certainly deserves to be able to write something as self-indulgent as this, I made the mistake of picking this up before having read any of his canonical stuff. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
There is no reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized like the mafia.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
As a kid I was the youngest member of my family, and the youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
If you live long enough, a lot of people close to you are going to die.
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In a collection of brief autobiographical essays, the renowned novelist offers his views on art, politics, and everyday life in America. A 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?"). Gleaned from short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author in full color 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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