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Before the publication of Slaughterhouse-Five and Player Piano and like novels which have made him one of America's greatest contemporary authors, Vonnegut was scraping out a comfortable living writing short stories for the magazines. Collected here for the first time are 23 of his favorite early stories, originally published in magazines like The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, and Argosy, with an original introduction and coda written by Vonnegut for the occasion. For devoted fans and readers everywhere, Bagombo Snuff Box is the genesis of a literary master.
The eight powerful stories of The Shooting Gallery examine the lives of single women coping with motherhood, passion, jealousy, and the tug-of-war between responsibility and entrapment. The fear of abandonment is a recurrent theme (Tsushima is the daughter of the famous novelist Osamu Dazai who committed suicide a year after his daughter's birth). She is considered "one of the most important writers of her generation" (New York Times Book Review). |
Though known primarily for his original poetry, Ezra Pound was also a masterful translator. Ranging through many languages, he chose for translation those writers whose work marked a significant turning point in the development of world literature, or exemplary poems of a period or genre. This enlarged edition of his translations is chiefly devoted to poetry and contains poems from the Chinese, the poems and sonnets of Cavalcanti, 15 Japanese Noh plays, translations of du Bellay, Kabir, Horace, Catullus, and many others.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries comes this short story collection, the distillation of Carol Shields's wisdom, elegance, eroticism, and insouciant humor into 22 wonderful narratives. Each story is so rich that it seems to hold within it the kernel for an entire novel. Unifying these pieces is Shields's preoccupation with identity. "Nearly three-quarters of the way through this collection...there is a sentence that calls out to be quoted, since it seems to be the perfect description of the book as a whole...: 'The ordinary has become extraordinary.'" -New York Times Book Review |
Bagombo Snuff Box
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