Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction Paperback - 2000
by Kurt Vonnegut
""Bagombo Snuff Box" resurrects Vonnegut's earliest efforts, stories written during the 50s and 60s, for such popular venues as "The Saturday Evening Post" and "Collier". . . . Unabashedly fablelike they can be either sly or sweet, sentimental or vaudevillian, but all are quietly subversive".--"Booklist". Includes an Introduction by the author.
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"Vonnegut said that his last book, Timequake (1997), would be his last, but no one as imaginative and in love with language and story can resist the lure of the page, and it's obvious that he had a grand time working on this collection of his vintage stories. Bagombo Snuff Box resurrects Vonnegut's earliest efforts, stories written during the fifties and sixties for such popular venues as The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's. In his engagingly autobiographical introduction, Vonnegut describes his stints as a Chicago journalist and PR man for General Electric in Schenectady, New York; his decision to supplement his income by writing; and his rapid success and evolution into a full-time writer. So, here are his literary roots, a set of stories that reflects their era's eagerness to turn the horrors of war into anecdote and to equate technology with progress. Unabashedly fablelike, they can be either sly or sweet, sentimental or vaudevillian, but all are quietly subversive. . . . Rich in low-key humor and good old-fashioned morality, Vonnegut's stories are both wily and tender." Booklist
"You trust this voice . . . the pretentious are all brought to earth with his wit . . . These stories . . . speak only of simple truths." Chicago Sun-Times
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From the rear cover
From the acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, and Timequake comes this new compilation of short fiction, twenty-three previously uncollected stories. These vignettes of American life draw on Kurt Vonnegut's World War Two experiences and the resolute optimism of the country after the war. Together, they present a poignant and humorous portrayal of an America peopled with overzealous high school band directors and their students ("Ambitious Sophomore"), rebellious housewives ("Custom-Made Bride") and boasting salesmen ("Bagombo Snuff Box"), soldiers misplaced during the war ("Der Arme Dolmetscher") and people lost in their own gadget-filled homes ("The Package").
In an era before television, Kurt Vonnegut found a ready and willing audience in the readers of such magazines as Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Argosy, and Redbook. These rare, rediscovered tales give us a glimpse into a more innocent America -- and into the developing genius of one of the greatest writers of our time.
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- Title Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
- Author Kurt Vonnegut
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Berkley Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date August 8, 2000
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780425174463 / 0425174468
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.14 x 1.1 in (20.22 x 13.06 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs -
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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