Bagombo Snuff Box, Kurt Vonnegut
Bagombo Snuff Box, Kurt Vonnegut
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Bagombo Snuff Box

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrator: Alexander Marshall

Abridged: 5 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2007

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


Synopsis

This is vintage Vonnegut: short stories never-before collected or published in book form. They are from the era of the Golden Age of magazines: a pre-television time when publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Argosy, and others reigned supreme as Americans' entertainment choice.

Before that Golden Age drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at General Electric sold his first short story to one of the publications. By the time he'd sold his third, Vonnegut quit GE to join the likes of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner to write short stories at fifteen-hundred dollars a piece.

Vonnegut himself has selected the best of these early stories for this audio collection, and has written a new preface and afterword for the occasion. Now listeners can relive the genesis of the master. Stories such as "Cruise of the Jolly Roger," "The Powder Blue Dragon," "Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp," and "Bagombo Snuff Box" return us to the beginning of a literary voice that's sure to endure forever. Bagombo Snuff Box, the missing pieces of the master's collection, is a ready-made classic for Vonnegut fans new and old.

About Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut is the legendary author of dozens of books, including Timequake, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse-Five, and, with Lee Stringer, Like Shaking Hands with God, which is available from Washington Square Press.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Valeriu on August 22, 2022

Vonnegut înainte de Vonnegut... În „Introducerea” la această carte, prozatorul vorbește cu extremă modestie despre povestirile scrise la începutul anilor 50 ai secolului trecut: „Eram convins că nu fac nici cît o ceapă degerată. Nu voiam decît să-mi întrețin familia” (p.17). În „Cuvîntul final despre......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on November 11, 2023

How does one rate a collection of short stories? Should I rate each story then average them out? Or should I invent some amalgamated, conglomerated, overall valuation based on gut feelings and my present mood? I find it so much easier to rate nonfiction. Nonfiction seems much less arbitrary and capr......more

Goodreads review by MJ on March 13, 2010

A collection of Vonnegut's earliest work for '50s/60s periodicals. As the Master himself points out in the marvellous introduction, these are embryonic stories, stylistically clumsy and written purely for financial gain. This doesn't make the work any less playful and Vonnegutian, though the bulk of......more

Goodreads review by Cristians⚜️ on January 11, 2024

E aproape obositor să tot constat câți scriitori foarte buni au avut și încă au nord-americanii. Probabil, cea mai mare literatură a lumii.......more

Goodreads review by Patdmac7 on December 10, 2009

Creative Writing 101: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 4. Every sentence must do one of two......more