Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743422007, Paperback)

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? Not an ending but an occurrence that changes those to whom it happens?

As a "reporter on the afterlife," Vonnegut bravely allows himself to be strapped to a gurney by his friend 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 William Shakespeare, Adolf Hitler, and Clarence Darrow, bringing readers to an entirely new place -- a place to which only Vonnegut could bring us.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0736654909, Audio Cassette)

Only Vonnegut could make death, and our aversion to it, a comic adventure. Here he skips back and forth between life and the afterlife as if the difference between them were slight. In thirty-some "interviews" - with Isaac Newton, Clarence Darrow, Eugene Debs, John Brown, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare and, among others, a nonentity who died while rescuing his schnauzer from a pit bull - Vonnegut trips down "the blue tunnel to the pearly gates" in the guise of a roving reporter for public radio. All the qualities that make Vonnegut an inimitable voice - his irreverence, humor, love of humanity, and power to make readers stop and think - permeate this book of vignettes.

"Highly entertaining. Vonnegut provides his answer to the old question: what's heaven for?" (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)