And so it goes Kurt Vonnegut, a life
"From the author of Mockingbird -- the first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who forever altered American literature. In 2006, Charles Shields reached out to Kurt Vonnegut in a letter asking for his endorsement for a planned biography. The first response was no ("A m...
| Main Author: | Shields, Charles J., 1951- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Griffin,
2012.
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| Edition: | 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Out of print and scared to death
- You were an accident, 1922-1940
- One of the biggest fools on the hill, 1940-1943
- To war in the bridal suite, 1943-1945
- Folk Society and the House of Magic, 1945-1947
- Stop being such a hardheaded realist, 1948-1951
- The dead engineer, 1951-1958
- Cooped up with all these kids, 1958-1965
- A community of writers, 1965-1967
- The big Ka-BOOM, 1967-1969
- Goodbye and goodbye and goodbye, 1969-1971
- Cultural bureaucrat, 1971-1974
- Ripped off, 1975-1979
- Looking for Mr. Vonnegut, 1980-1984
- Dear celebrity, 1984-1991
- Waiting to die, 1992-2007
- Appendix. Vonnegut-Lieber family history.