Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
by:
Kurt Vonnegut (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399145261 (0399145265)
Publish date: August 30th 1999
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Pages no: 295
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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