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May 25th, 2011
So It Went: A New Biography of Kurt Vonnegut Is a Portrait of an Artist who Cultivated a Scruffy Image (thepoliticker.observer)
Kurt Vonnegut. (Photo by Gil Friedberg / Pix Inc. / Time Life Pictures / Getty
Images)
More than any writer of his era, Kurt Vonnegut survives as an image: haggard,
mustachioed, nicotine-stained, his hair a tangle—a cat’s cradle, one might
say—of curls. As was often noted, he looked like Mark Twain, only cuter.
Certainly, he was more boyish than Twain. He was a millionaire who rued, until
he died, that his mother had not been a better hugger; a grown man who went
swimming, sheepishly, in pants; a father who “painted pertinent quotes on
various walls in the house.” He was 6'3", but small at heart. “If the
government assigned heights based on maturity,” he wrote in a letter to his
first wife, Jane, “[I] would be much shorter.” Vonnegut’s fiction was
similarly deceptive; he addressed major themes in a minor key. “Mass
destruction was a bit of a Vonnegut trope,” as Charles Shields observes in
_And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life_ (Henry Holt and Co., 528 pages,
$30.00). That this was so is undeniable, and yet the message of Vonnegut’s
darkest novels must sound saccharine to many schoolchildren. He believed in
common decency ...
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