did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780399145261

Bagombo Snuff Box : Uncollected Short Fiction

by
  • ISBN13:

    9780399145261

  • ISBN10:

    0399145265

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-08-30
  • Publisher: Putnam Adult

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
List Price: $150.00 Save up to $37.50
  • Buy Used
    $112.50
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    USUALLY SHIPS IN 2-4 BUSINESS DAYS

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

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

Author Biography

Kart Vonneget, born in 1922 in Indianapolis, is the son and grandson of Indiana architects, and the grandson of a brewer. He holds a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago, his novel Cat's Cradle having been accepted as a thesis. A lecturer and painter as well as a writer, he lives with his wife, the writer and photographer Jill Krementz, and their daughter, Lily, in New York.

Table of Contents

Preface
xiii
Peter Reed
Introduction 1(12)
Thanasphere
13(16)
Mnemonics
29(4)
Any Reasonable Offer
33(12)
The Package
45(18)
The No-Talent Kid
63(12)
Poor Little Rich Town
75(14)
Souvenir
89(10)
The Cruise of The Jolly Roger
99(10)
Custom-Made Bride
109(14)
Ambitious Sophomore
123(12)
Bagombo Snuff Box
135(12)
The Powder-Blue Dragon
147(12)
A Present for Big Saint Nick
159(12)
Unpaid Consultant
171(12)
Der Arme Dolmetscher
183(6)
The Boy Who Hated Girls
189(12)
This Son of Mine
201(16)
A Night for Love
217(16)
Find Me a Dream
233(10)
Runaways
243(16)
2BR02B
259(10)
Lovers Anonymous
269(12)
Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp
281(8)
Coda to My Career as a Writer for Periodicals 289

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program