Parámetros
- 295 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
Más información sobre el libro
Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago--soon to be beaten at the entertainment game by the new little boxes with moving images that were finding their way into the homes of more & more Americans--a young PR man at General Electric sold his 1st short story to one of the doomed publications. By the time he'd sold his 34d, he decided to quit GE & join the likes of Hemingway, Fitzgerald & Faulkner. & try to make a living at 1500 dollars a pop. With four major magazines running five stories each week & smaller ones scouting as well, it was a seller's market, & Kurt Vonnegut was delighted & comfortable being published regularly by The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Argosy & others.
Compra de libros
Bagombo Snuff Box, Peter J. Reed, Kurt Vonnegut
- Idioma
- Publicado en
- 1999
- Encuadernación
- (Tapa dura)
Métodos de pago
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- Título
- Bagombo Snuff Box
- Subtítulo
- Uncollected Short Fiction
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Peter J. Reed, Kurt Vonnegut
- Editorial
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Publicado en
- 1999
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 295
- ISBN10
- 0399145052
- ISBN13
- 9780399145056
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Humor, Ciencia ficción, Clásicos, Cuentos cortos, Literatura americana, Sátira
- Descripción
- Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago--soon to be beaten at the entertainment game by the new little boxes with moving images that were finding their way into the homes of more & more Americans--a young PR man at General Electric sold his 1st short story to one of the doomed publications. By the time he'd sold his 34d, he decided to quit GE & join the likes of Hemingway, Fitzgerald & Faulkner. & try to make a living at 1500 dollars a pop. With four major magazines running five stories each week & smaller ones scouting as well, it was a seller's market, & Kurt Vonnegut was delighted & comfortable being published regularly by The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Argosy & others.