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God bless you, Dr. Kevorkian
93 pages
A quick, darkly comedic stroll through the afterlife that treats mortality with a wink and a shrug.
What it feels like
Reading this collection feels like tuning into a late-night radio broadcast hosted by a brilliantly cynical yet deeply humanist friend. Because it originated as a series of ninety-second audio interludes, the pace is incredibly brisk, allowing you to dip in and out of the afterlife with effortless speed. The mood is a unique blend of the absurd and the contemplative, treating the grand mystery of death with a casual, irreverent shrug. The prose is classic, stripped-down satire—conversational, punchy, and deceptively profound. It delights readers who appreciate dark humor and philosophical musings, offering a bite-sized, wryly comforting perspective on mortality, historical legacy, and the sheer, unadulterated weirdness of being alive in the first place.
- Mood
- absurd
- contemplative
- lightly melancholic
- quirky
- Tone
- wry
- satirical
- irreverent
- humanist
- conversational
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- the absurdity of existence · mortality and the afterlife · historical legacy · secular humanism
- The writing
- Deceptively simple and highly conversational, the sentences are delivered with a dry, punchy wit that feels like listening to an old friend.
- The arc
- The journey begins with morbid, satirical curiosity and settles into a gentle, wry appreciation for the absurdities of the human condition.
- Who it's for
- Readers who enjoy bite-sized, philosophical satire and find comfort in dark, humanist humor.
Content notes
- assisted suicide (thematic premise)
- death and dying
About the book
In God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Kurt Vonnegut skips back and forth between life and afterlife as if the difference between them were rather slight.This fictional adventure, that began as a series of 90-second interludes for WNYC, New York City's public radio station, has evolved over the past year as a strange and lasting work of the imagination. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian follows on Vonnegut's three previous works, the bestselling novel Timequake, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction and, with Lee Stringer, Like Shaking Hands with God (Seven Stories Press).
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