{"product_id":"kurt-vonnegut-the-last-interview-and-other-conversations-paperback","title":"Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKurt Vonnegut\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the great American iconoclasts holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life in a series of conversations, including his last published interview. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring his long career Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays, and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut--which collects interviews from throughout his career--we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Kurt Vonnegut's last interview\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIs there another book in you, by chance?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo. Look, I'm 84 years old. Writers of fiction have usually done their best work by the time they're 45. Chess masters are through when they're 35, and so are baseball players. There are plenty of other people writing. Let them do it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSo what's the old man's game, then?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMy country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen someone reads one of your books, what would you like them to take from the experience?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWell, I'd like the guy--or the girl, of course--to put the book down and think, \"This is the greatest man who ever lived.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKurt Vonnegut\u003c\/b\u003e's black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in \u003ci\u003eThe Sirens of Titan\u003c\/i\u003e in 1959 and established him as \"a true artist\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) with \u003ci\u003eCat's Cradle\u003c\/i\u003e in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, \"one of the best living American writers.\" Vonnegut died April 11, 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 16, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47819741528317,"sku":"9781612190907","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/Gqk6iiHHBz9781612190907.webp?v=1783672536","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/kurt-vonnegut-the-last-interview-and-other-conversations-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}