Kurt Vonnegut's son has hit out at a new biography of the Slaughterhouse-Five author which paints him as a bitter, lonely old man.
Charles Shields' And So It Goes depicts Vonnegut as an angry man prone to fits of depression, cruel to his first wife and even investing in Dow Chemical, a maker of napalm. Vonnegut was desperate for appreciation, Shields writes, describing a meeting with the author a few months before his death in 2007 when Vonnegut's own name was not to be found in a dictionary, but Jack Kerouac's was. Frowning, Vonnegut then asked: "How about that?"
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