Bagombo Snuff Box - Kurt Vonnegut • BookLikes

Bagombo Snuff Box

by: Kurt Vonnegut (author)

Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago--soon to be beaten at the entertainment game by the new little boxes with moving images that were finding their way into the homes of more & more Americans--a young PR man at General Electric sold his 1st short story to one of... show more

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Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Rosetta Books

Pages no: 388

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Humor, Science Fiction, Literature, American, Anthologies, Collections, Contemporary, Short Stories, Short Story Collection

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Olga Godim rated it

11 years ago

http://OlgaGodim.booklikes.com Olga Godim 4.0 Mark Twain of our times

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Although this book was compiled in 1999, it contains the author’s early short stories, published in magazines in the 1950s and ’60s. It was not an easy or a fast book to read but it was powerful and it made an impression. I won’t re-read it; it didn’t give me much pleasure, which is why 4 stars inst...

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The Drift Of Things rated it

16 years ago

http://JeanetteTheRefugee.booklikes.com The Drift Of Things 3.0

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Pre-science-fiction Vonnegut. From the days when he was a nobody and sold stories to periodicals just to keep food on the table. "Souvenir" is probably the best one in the bunch.

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