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Availability:In StockContributor:Donald Barthelme, David Gates (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2003-09-30Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780142437391ISBN-10:142437395UPC:9780142437391Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Short Stories (single author), HumorousSize:7.76 x 5.08 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCKYHC7H9Y
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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin ClassicsISBN-13:9780142437391ISBN-10:142437395UPC:9780142437391Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Short Stories (single author), HumorousSize:7.76 x 5.08 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCKYHC7H9Y
Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) published twelve books, including two novels and a prize-winning children's book. He was a regular contributor to the New Yorker and taught creative writing at the University of Houston. In his career, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, among others.

David Gates is a book critic at Newsweek. He is the author of three acclaimed works of fiction.


Publisher: Penguin Classics

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