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

Author: Charles J. Shields

Narrator: Fred Berman

Unabridged: 17 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/11/2012


Synopsis

New York Times best-selling author and biographer Charles J. Shields crafts this fascinating portrait of literary icon Kurt Vonnegut. The first authorized biography of the influential American writer, And So It Goes examines Vonnegut's life from his childhood to his death in 2007 and explores how the author changed the conversation of American literature.

About Charles J. Shields

Charles J. Shields is the author of Harper Lee’s New York Times bestselling biography Mockingbird, the Kurt Vonnegut biography And So It Goes, and the biography of John Edward Williams, The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel. Shields has spoken to hundreds of large audiences in schools, libraries, museums, and historic theaters and appeared in newspapers and magazines worldwide, including the Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, Huffington Post, and New York Times.


Reviews

Goodreads review by MJ on April 12, 2012

A cursory glance at Charles J. Shields’s bibliography shows him to have authored a string of hack profiles ranging from Saddam Hussein to J.K. Rowling, plus books on sexual disorders, Uruguay and Vladimir Putin. Clearly this is the man to write the first full-length biography of bouffant satirical d......more

Goodreads review by Jim on November 09, 2024

An excellent biography about one of the iconic writers of our time,this book is by Charles Shields, who was with Vonnegut almost up to the day he went into the coma in March of 2007, dying in April, almost 85 years old. Shields shows the solid German-American Midwestern roots of the man, and then th......more

Goodreads review by David on May 29, 2012

Charles J. Shields seems to really not like Kurt Vonnegut. This is a problem since the market for this book is people who do like Kurt Vonnegut. And I'm not saying that just because of all the dirty laundry about his personal life, but because he has no appreciation for his actual literary work. The......more

Goodreads review by britt_brooke on January 27, 2021

Written during the last year of Vonnegut’s life, this authorized biography details his successes, failures, good attributes, and bad. It took decades, and lots of odd ventures, to finally become a successful writer. During the several years following his POW experience, he tinkered with how to effec......more

Goodreads review by Mal on April 06, 2017

And So It Goes: The sad life of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The face that peers out at you from the cover is immeasurably sad. It’s the face of a man in middle age weighed down by lifetimes of tragedy. The man — one of the most remarkable novelists of the 20th century — is Kurt Vonnegut, known throughout much......more