Bagombo Snuff Box
Uncollected Short Fiction
$37.84
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2000
Summary
Vintage Vonnegut - a unique collection of two dozen stories
New York, 1950. A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. By the time he’d sold his third, he decided to quit his job and join the likes of Salinger, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner, and make a living as a full-time writer. That young man was Kurt Vonnegut.
Bagombo Snuff Box collects Vonnegut’s favourite stories from the postwar years that sharpened his dark, vaudevillian an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099282969 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099282968 |
| Author: | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2000 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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A brilliant wacky ideas-monger
A brilliant wacky ideas-monger * Observer *
A cool writer, at once throwaway and passionate and very funny * Financial Times *
One of the 20th century’s finest humorists and humanists, a writer who has inherited HG Wells’s visionary imagination and his gift for social commentary * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of war in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired the canonic war novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He is the author of thirteen other novels, which include Cat’s Cradle, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galapagos and Bluebeard, two collections of stories, and three non-fiction books. He died in 2007.
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