Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction
 

Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction

by Kurt Vonnegut

From out of the blue, here's a new collection of Vonnegut fiction--his first magazine stories from the 1950s in book form at last, with some charming reminiscences (and three new endings for old stories) by the author. Vonnegut says these tales were meant to be as evanescent as lightening bugs, and that image captures their frail magic. They're like time travelers from an epoch when... (read more)

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vonnegut is always interesting, but these early works aren't as quirky or noteworthy as the novels that made him famous. nothing links them together, which is fine for a collection he admittedly wrote more to support his family than to give of himself. worthwhile to a completist, but not a great introduction to a man with a lot more to show and say.

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