Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
by:
Kurt Vonnegut (author)
Here, Kurt Vonnegut’s final short story collection--Bagombo Snuff Box (1999)--we have combined early and rather more obscure stories which had not appeared earlier. Drawn largely from the 1950s and the slick magazine markets which Vonnegut had from the beginning of his career in the postwar...
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Here, Kurt Vonnegut’s final short story collection--Bagombo Snuff Box (1999)--we have combined early and rather more obscure stories which had not appeared earlier. Drawn largely from the 1950s and the slick magazine markets which Vonnegut had from the beginning of his career in the postwar period demonstrated an uncanny ability to sell, these stories show clearly that Von
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780795318719 (0795318715)
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
Anthologies,
Collections,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Short Story Collection
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...
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.
I enjoyed reading these early, unpolished works - he tries out many ideas that pop up in his later works in more refined form.
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