God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2010
- ISBN
- 9781609800734
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
ISBN-10
1609800737
ISBN-13
9781609800734
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92473629
Product Key Features
Book Title
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Visionary & Metaphysical, General, Absurdist, Literary
Publication Year
2010
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
3.1 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-040170
Reviews
"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
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut'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 "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" 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 Vonnegut's personal heroes. What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes for WNYC, New York City'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., In 1998, Kurt Vonnegut was sent to the afterlife by National Public Radio to conduct a series of (fictionalised) interviews. This adventure takes the form of a series of transcripts from these encounters - brief pieces which were originally read on WNYC, Manhattan's public radio station, but have now been revised and rewritten. What begins as a series of 90-second radio interviews evolves into a provocative collection of musings about who and what people live for, featuring a fantastical cast of characters including Shakespeare, Mary Shelley and Isaac Newton.
LC Classification Number
PS3572.O5
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