Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction

As Vonnegut points out in his introduction, the stories are shards of a vanished civilization -- that remote pre-TV epoch when popular magazines published several short stories per issue, when readers devoutly devoured them, and when a young writer in search of his voice could support his family by churning them out. Mild as most of them are, these tales are worth reading; with the other early stories in ''Welcome to the Monkey House,'' they provide fans the complete test-tube Vonnegut.