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GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIAN
by Vonnegut, Kurt
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About This Item
New York: Seven Stories Press, (1999). First edition. SIGNED BY VONNEGUT with his traditional a**hole asterisk on first blank page. Collection of imagined interviews published, according to Vonnegut's introduction, as a fundraiser for New York's public radio station, WNYC, where these musings first appeared as 90-second on-air segments. Interviewees include persons known and unknown - Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, James Earl Ray, John Brown, Eugene Debs, et al, along with locals such as Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction worker who died of a heart attack while rescuing his schnauzer from a pit bull. Slender 8vo half blue cloth over white paper boards with spine stamped in silver; 79 pages including "index of persons." Fine in fine dust jacket with front-panel illustration by Jules Feiffer of Vonnegut, cigarette in hand, reclining on a gurney.
Synopsis
KURT VONNEGUT was among the few grandmasters of twentieth-century American letters, one without whom the very term American literature would mean much less than it does now. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 11, 1922, and died on April 11, 2007, in New York City.
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- Bookseller
- Quill & Brush
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71749
- Title
- GOD BLESS YOU, DR. KEVORKIAN
- Author
- Vonnegut, Kurt
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1999)
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