Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction

Vonnegut, Kurt

ISBN 10: 0425174468 / ISBN 13: 9780425174463

Editore: Penguin Publishing Group, 2000

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Codice articolo 00088087776

Riassunto:

From the acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions comes a compilation of twenty-three never-before-collected short stories.

These vignettes of American life draw on Kurt Vonnegut's World War 2 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, rebellious housewives, and boasting salesmen, soldiers misplaced during the war and people lost in their own gadget-filled homes. 

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 gives us a glimpse into a more innocent America—and into the developing genius of one of the greatest writers of our time.

Informazioni sull?autore: Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him, in the words of The New York Times, as “a true artist” with the publication of Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.

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Titolo: Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group
Data di pubblicazione: 2000
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good