Name: Bagombo Snuff box
Price: 13.84 EUR
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Author: Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN: 9780099282969

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kurt Vonnegut

Publisher

Vintage Classics

Synopsis "Bagombo Snuff box "

Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago a young PR man at General Electric sold his first short story to one of the doomed publications. By the time he d sold his third he decided to quit GE and join the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Faulkner and try to make a living at $1500. With four major magazines running five stories each week and smaller ones scouting as well it was a seller s market and Vonnegut was published regularly by The Saturday Evening Post Collier s Argosy and others. For this unusual collection Vonnegut has selected twenty four of his favourite stories never published before in book form and has written a new preface for the occasion. Vonnegut scholar Peter Reed who unearthed the old publications contributes an introduction. The stories bring us to the beginning of a literary voice that is sure to last forever. BAGOMBO SNUFF BOX the missing pieces of the master s oeuvre is a ready made classic for Vonnegut fans new and old.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American writer, whose works, generally classified as science fiction, also delve into satire and black comedy. He is the author of fourteen novels, among which stand out The Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions.

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