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Blurb: “"Vonnegut is George Orwell, Dr. Caligari, and Flash Gordon compounded into one writer....
A zany but moral-mad scientist." - Time
In what began as a series of quirkily characteristic ninety-second interludes for New York's public radio station, Kurt Vonnegut asks, on behalf of us all, the Big Questions. Could death be a quality?
A place? Not an ending but an occurrence that changes those to whom it happens?
As a "reporter on the afterlife," Vonnegut bravely allows himself to be strapped to a gurney by his friend Jack Kevorkian and dispatched round-trip to the Pearly Gates. Or at least that's what he claims in the introduction to these thirty-odd comic and irreverent "interviews" with the likes of William Shakespeare, Adolf Hitler, and Clarence Darrow, bringing readers to an entirely new place— a place to which only Vonnegut could bring us.
"Vonnegut devotees will love this little book, and I'm sure anyone else with a sense of humor and the desire to fulfill his or her 'right to know' will enjoy it as well....
A tidy smorgasbord of ficto-journalism and journo-fictionalism and various other forms of writing that deftly defy classification." - The Providence Sunday Journal
"Vonnegut is our strongest writer... the most stubbornly imaginative." - John Irving
KURT VONNEGUT is the legendary author of dozens of books, including Timequake, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse-Five, and, with Lee Stringer, Like Shaking Hands with God, which is available from Washington Square Press.”