God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian

All the qualities that make Vonnegut an inimitable voice permeate this book of 30+ vignettes. His "interviews" in this humorous look at death are with such late luminaries as Sir Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, and William Shakespeare.

In what began as a series of quirkily characteristic ninety-second interludes for New York's public radio station, Kurt Vonnegut asks, on behalf of us all, the Big Questions. Could death be a quality? A place?

A work of dark beauty that is funny, disturbing, dazzling, and utterly new, God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian finds Vonnegut playing the role of an "afterlife reporter", bravely allowing himself to be strapped to a gurney by Jack Kevorkian and dispatched round-trip to the Pearly Gates. Or at least that's what he claims in the introduction to these thirty-odd comic and irreverent "interviews" with the likes of Isaac Newton, William Shakespeare, Adolf Hitler, and Clarence Darrow, taking readers to an entirely new place in literature -- a place to which only Vonnegut could lead us.