“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. And
So It Goes 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, Man Without a Country,
published in 2006, spent fifteen weeks on the New York Times 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..”
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