03539cam a2200541 4500 1145233822 TxAuBib 20240213120000.0 ||||||s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781429973793 142997379X B0051O9Y6G Amazon eed49248-64ce-43f4-a154-5cf126f298bf OverDrive (Reserve ID) 581910 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shields, Charles J. And So It Goes [Libby] : Kurt Vonnegut: a Life. Henry Holt and Co., 2011. Postmodernism. Literary Criticism. American Authors. humorist. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. WWII. Science Fiction. Writers. American Literature. Dark Humor. books about books. 20th century literature. writers life. author biography. literary biographies. satirists. award winning biographers. bestselling biographers. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 934kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book for 2011</b><br /> <b>A <i>Washington Post</i> Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011</b><br /> <b>The first authoritative biography of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a writer who changed the conversation of American literature.</b><br /> 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 most respectful demurring by me for the excellent writer Charles J. Shields, who offered to be my biographer"). Unwilling to take no for an answer, propelled by a passion for his subject, and already deep into his research, Shields wrote again and this time, to his delight, the answer came back: "O.K." For the next year—a year that ended up being Vonnegut's last—Shields had access to Vonnegut and his letters.<br /> <i>And So It Goes</i> is the culmination of five years of research and writing—the first-ever biography of the life of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut resonates with readers of all generations from the baby boomers who grew up with him to high-school and college students who are discovering his work for the first time. Vonnegut's concise collection of personal essays, <i>Man Without a Country</i>, published in 2006, spent fifteen weeks on the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller list and has sold more than 300,000 copies to date. The twenty-first century has seen interest in and scholarship about Vonnegut's works grow even stronger, and this is the first book to examine in full the life of one of the most influential iconoclasts of his time.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-02-13 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=EED49248-64CE-43F4-A154-5CF126F298BF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=EED49248-64CE-43F4-A154-5CF126F298BF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=EED49248-64CE-43F4-A154-5CF126F298BF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXPOT