Bagombo Snuff Box

Informationen zum Autor Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he served in Europe and, as a prisoner of war in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired the canonic war novel Slaughterhouse-Five. He is the author of thirteen other novels, which include Cat's Cradle , Jailbird , Deadeye Dick , Galápagos and Bluebeard , two collections of stories, and three non-fiction books. He died in 2007. Klappentext A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. 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. Zusammenfassung A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut Kurt
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.11.2000
• EAN: 9780099282969
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928296-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), Anthologies: general, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary