| Introduction |
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| Prologue: Out of Print and Scared to Death |
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1 You Were an Accident, 1922--1940 |
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2 One of the Biggest Fools on the Hill, 1940--1943 |
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36 | (14) |
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3 To War in the Bridal Suite, 1943--1945 |
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4 Folk Society and the House of Magic, 1945--1947 |
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79 | (25) |
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5 Stop Being Such a Hardheaded Realist, 1948--1951 |
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104 | (15) |
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6 The Dead Engineer, 1951--1958 |
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119 | (30) |
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7 Cooped Up with All These Kids, 1958--1965 |
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149 | (41) |
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8 A Community of Writers, 1965--1967 |
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190 | (35) |
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9 The Big Ka-BOOM, 1967--1969 |
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225 | (32) |
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10 Goodbye and Goodbye and Goodbye, 1969--1971 |
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257 | (29) |
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11 Cultural Bureaucrat, 1971--1974 |
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286 | (34) |
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12 Ripped Off, 1975--1979 |
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320 | (24) |
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13 Looking for Mr. Vonnegut, 1980--1984 |
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344 | (20) |
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14 Dear Celebrity, 1984--1991 |
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364 | (23) |
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15 Waiting to Die, 1992--2007 |
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387 | (30) |
| Appendix: Vonnegut-Lieber Family History |
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417 | (8) |
| Notes |
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| Bibliography |
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481 | (12) |
| Acknowledgments |
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493 | (4) |
| Index |
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