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Assume the worst : the graduation speech you'll never hear / by Carl Hiaasen ; illustrated by Roz Chast.
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"This commencement address will never be given, because graduation speakers are supposed to offer encouragement and inspiration. That's not what you need. You need a warning." So begins Carl Hiaasen's attempt to prepare young men and women for their future. Following the format of Anna Quindlen's commencement address "Being Perfect" and George Saunders's commencement address "Congratulations, by the way", the collaboration of Hiaasen and Chast might look typical from the outside, but inside it is anything but. Because it is not just funny. It is, in its own Hiaasen way, extremely wise and even hopeful. Well, it might not be full of hope, but there are certainly enough slivers of the stuff in there to more than keep us all going.
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Hiaasen, Carl
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Assume the worst : the graduation speech you'll never hear / by Carl Hiaasen ; illustrated by Roz Chast.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
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39 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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"This commencement address will never be given, because graduation speakers are supposed to offer encouragement and inspiration. That's not what you need. You need a warning." So begins Carl Hiaasen's attempt to prepare young men and women for their future. Following the format of Anna Quindlen's commencement address "Being Perfect" and George Saunders's commencement address "Congratulations, by the way", the collaboration of Hiaasen and Chast might look typical from the outside, but inside it is anything but. Because it is not just funny. It is, in its own Hiaasen way, extremely wise and even hopeful. Well, it might not be full of hope, but there are certainly enough slivers of the stuff in there to more than keep us all going.
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Baccalaureate addresses
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Humor
Success -- Psychological aspects -- Humor
Conduct of life -- Humor
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Chast, Roz
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Conduct of life -- Humor
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Success -- Psychological aspects -- Humor
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