Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday (1981) is Kurt Vonnegut's autobiographical collage, assembling essays, speeches, letters, reviews, and assorted reflections into what he describes in his own introduction as a blivit, something that defies easy classification. The pieces range from his letter to a North Dakota school committee that burned his books, to a Paris Review self-interview, to an introduction written for Louis-Ferdinand Céline's controversial late novels. Among its contents is "The Big Space Fuck," first published in Harlan Ellison's Again, Dangerous Visions (1972), one of Vonnegut's most deliberately outrageous stories, set in a country overwhelmed by overpopulation and pollution, where America's last desperate act is launching a rocket packed with human sperm toward the Andromeda Galaxy.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. New York: Delacorte, 1981. ISBN: 0440065933. #10410.
Fine in dust jacket.