description: Only Vonnegut could make death, and our aversion to it, a comic adventure. Here he skips back and forth between life and the afterlife as if the difference between them were slight. In thirty-some "interviews" - with Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, Eugene Debs, John Brown, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare and, among others, a nonentity who died while rescuing his schnauzer from a pit bull - Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio. All the qualities that make Vonnegut an inimitable voice - his irreverence, humor, love of humanity, and power to make readers stop and think - permeate this book of vignettes. "Highly entertaining. Vonnegut provides his answer to the old what's heaven for?" (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
language: English
title: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
titlecomplete: God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
characters: Eugene V. Debs, Adolf Hitler, Clarence Darrow, Jack Kevorkian, William Blake, Kilgore Trout, William Shakespeare, Peter (Apostle), Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, John Brown, Isaac Newton, James Earl Ray
genres: Humor, Adult Fiction, Science Fiction, Classics, Essays, Fantasy, Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, American
ratings_count: 16344
publisher: Books on Tape, Inc.