God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

By Kurt Vonnegut

God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - Kurt Vonnegut
  • Release Date: 1999-12-07
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4
4
From 15 Ratings

Description

From Slapstick's "Turkey Farm" to Slaughterhouse-Five's eternity in a Tralfamadorean zoo cage with Montana Wildhack, the question of the afterlife never left Kurt Vonnegut's mind. In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and the Afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight. In thirty odd "interviews," Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio, conducting interviews: with Salvatore Biagini, a retired construction worker who died of a heart attack while rescuing his schnauzer from a pit bull, with John Brown, still smoldering 140 years after his death by hanging, with William Shakespeare, who rubs Vonnegut the wrong way, and with socialist and labor leader Eugene Victor Debs, one of Vonnegut's personal heroes.
What began as a series of ninety-second radio interludes for WNYC, New York City's public radio station, evolved into this provocative collection of musings about who and what we live for, and how much it all matters in the end. From the original portrait by his friend Jules Feiffer that graces the cover, to a final entry from Kilgore Trout, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian remains a joy.

Reviews

  • A gem

    5
    By Iphoneeee212
    The depth and humor of Vonnegut is best experienced when he writes about death and the idea of an afterlife. The whole premise is so interesting and entertaining. These short stories are beautiful little morsels that make you laugh, cry, or drop your jaw, but ultimately leave you with a little smirk on your face- the Vonnegut smirk.