Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction - Couverture rigide

Vonnegut, Kurt

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0399145265 ISBN 13 : 9780399145261

Editeur : Putnam Pub Group, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Vonnegut Kurt

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Never-before-collected, vintage Vonnegut.

"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

Quatrième de couverture

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 and quietly subversive voice. Here we see the mind-bending wit and central themes of his masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five. A must-read for Vonnegut aficionados new and old.

See also: Look at the Birdie

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Putnam Pub Group
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0399145265
• ISBN 13: 9780399145261
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 295
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible