September 16, 2005
Kurt Vonnegut on A Man Without a Country and Death
(Filed under: Book Buzz)
Kurt Vonnegut, author of favorites such as Slaughterhouse-Five and Piano Player, has a new success with his collection of non-fiction essays, A Man Without a Country.
"It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life," the 82-year-old Vonnegut said. The book is full of his dark humor and criticism of George W. Bush. With all the attention at his old age, he also talks about death:
He jokes, sort of, that he has "lived too long" and wishes he had been finished off by a fire at his home a few years ago, from which he escaped unharmed. "When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon," Vonnegut said with a wheezy laugh worthy of a long-term chain smoker."My father, like Hemingway, was a gun nut and was very unhappy late in life. But he was proud of not committing suicide. And I'll do the same, so as not to set a bad example for my children."
Posted by kevin at September 16, 2005 8:14 AM
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