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" All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. "
Charles J. Shields
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" On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money. "
Charles J. Shields
Reputation
Money
Strength
" If literary terms were about artistic merit and not the rules of convenience, about achievement and not safety, the term 'realism' would be an honorary one, conferred only on work that actually builds unsentimental reality on the page, that matches the complexity of life with an equally rich arrangement in language. "
Charles J. Shields
Work
Safety
Achievement
" Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do. "
Charles J. Shields
Woman
Children
Thinking
" 'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards. "
Charles J. Shields
More
Three
Awards
" 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch, a girl of about nine, and her slightly older brother, Jem. The second story concerns their father, attorney Atticus Finch, who has been appointed to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, falsely accused of raping a white woman. "
Charles J. Shields
Girl
Woman
Brother
" If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms. "
Charles J. Shields
Want
Serious
Ready
" My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man. "
Charles J. Shields
Pain
Man
Childhood
" In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. "
Charles J. Shields
Late
1990s
Field
" The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher. "
Charles J. Shields
Business
School
Criticism
" Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs. "
Charles J. Shields
Boy
Little
August
" There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative. "
Charles J. Shields
Open
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Life