And So It Goes
Subtitle: Kurt Vonnegut, a life
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9780805086935
Description: An authorized portrait of the influential twentieth-century American writer draws on first-person accounts and Vonnegut's private letters while offering insight into his youth, the inspirations for his work, and his enduring literary impact.
Table of contents: title: Out of print and scared to death; title: You were an accident, 1922-1940; title: One of the biggest fools on the hill, 1940-1943; title: To war in the bridal suite, 1943-1945; title: Folk society and the House of Magic, 1945-1947; title: Stop being such a hardheaded realist, 1948-1951; title: The dead engineer, 1951-1958; title: Cooped up with all these kids, 1958-1965; title: A community of writers, 1965-1967; title: The big Ka-BOOM, 1967-1969; title: Goodbye and goodbye and goodbye, 1969-1971; title: Cultural bureaucrat, 1971-1974; title: Ripped off, 1975-1979; title: Looking for Mr. Vonnegut, 1980-1984; title: Dear celebrity, 1984-1991; title: Waiting to die, 1992-2007; title: Appendix : Vonnegut-Lieber family history