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And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields

And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life Charles J. Shields ebook
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Format: pdf
Page: 544
ISBN: 9781250012180

The trouble with biographies of your favourite writers is that they force you to look beyond the author's work and judge him on his life. €�And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, a Life” was a New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Non-Fiction Notable Book in 2011. My husband was kind enough to offer to read and review this one. Charles ShieldsView on AmazonThe public image of Kurt Vonnegut is that of a crusty, irascible old man. And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles Shields. The Vonnegut we meet in Charles J. Someone with whom one would want to drink, but never ever fall in love. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut; Cat's Cradle - The Satire, The Irony; Here Are Some More Kurt Vonnegut Titles You Are Sure To Enjoy; And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life; Squid Angel Blessings!!! And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life. And So It Goes was written by Charles Shields, who also wrote a controversial biography of Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird. It sounded interesting to me but honestly I could not see myself reading an entire bio of Kurt V. February 15, 2012 Stephanie Leave a comment Go to comments. Not one of my favorite authors. Vonnegut is an iconic figure and certainly impressed me when I read him as a young man. I blog about being Vonnegut's biographer, incidentally, at “Writing Kurt Vonnegut” at http://www.writingkurtvonnegut.com. Shields writes in the introduction to And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, quoting a note he sent his then-potential-subject in summer 2006. And it will happen soon, I think,” Charles J. "Kurt Vonnegut's dark, sad, cruel side is laid bare" A biography of the author of Slaughterhouse Five The book on Vonnegut, who died in 2007, lifts the lid on the writer's private life, revealing a man far removed from the grandfather-like public figure his millions of devotees adored. Biographer Charles Shields spent a lot of time with Vonnegut while working on And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life.