We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works
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We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works
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We Are What We Pretend To Be: The First and Last Works is a book by Kurt Vonnegut. Published posthumously in 2013, it contains two novellas that were previously unpublished: Basic Training and If God Were Alive Today. It also contains some reminiscences and commentary by his daughter Nanette. The book's title comes from the preface of the 1966 edition of his novel Mother Night: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." Basic Training is his first novella,
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Collection containing previously unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut
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