Kurt Vonnegut

The Last Interview

Kurt Vonnegut, Tom McCartan

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Random House
01 March 2012

Biography; Literary essays; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

"A new series of pocket-sized interview collections, featuring conversations with some of the most iconic writers and thinkers of our time

One 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.

During 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.

From Kurt Vonnegut's last interview

Is there another book in you, by chance?

No. 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.

So what's the old man's game, then?

My 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.

When someone reads one of your books, what would you like them to take from the experience?

Well, 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."""

By: Kurt Vonnegut
Edited by: Tom McCartan
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 175g
ISBN: 9781612190907
ISBN 10: 1612190901
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 01 March 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview

Like Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln, even when he's funny, he's depressed.â .â .â . The way he goes about his business has helped most â ¨of us to go on living, if only to find out what happens next. â ¨--John Leonard, The Nation He is a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, â ¨a cynic who wants to believe. --Jay McInerney Vonnegut is our strongest writer .â .â . the most stubbornly imaginative. â ¨--John Irving Like Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln, even when he s funny, he s depressed. . . . The way he goes about his business has helped most of us to go on living, if only to find out what happens next. John Leonard, The Nation He is a satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe. Jay McInerney Vonnegut is our strongest writer . . . the most stubbornly imaginative. John Irving