Sixty Stories

With these audacious and murderously witty stories, Donald Barthelme threw the preoccupations of our time into the literary equivalent of a Cuisinart and served up a gorgeous salad of American culture, high and low. Here are the urban upheavals reimagined as frontier myth; travelogues through countries that might have been created by Kafka; cryptic dialogues that bore down to the bedrock of our longings, dreams, and angsts. Like all of Barthelme's work, the sixty stories collected in this volume are triumphs of language and perception, at once unsettling and irresistible.

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Product details

Author: Donald Barthelme; David Gates (Introduction by)
Language: English
Vendor: Commercial
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2003.
Publication date: 2003
ISBN: 9780142437391
Category: Book
Subcategory: Paperback
Added: March 27, 2012

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