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Sixty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)

by Donald Barthelme (Author), David Gates (Author) "Edward was explaining to Carl about margins..." (more)
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This excellent collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence--producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it--and wrote many of the most beautiful sentences in the English language. Due to the unfortunate discontinuance of many of Barthelme's titles, 60 Stories now stands as one of the broadest overviews of his work, containing selections from eight previously published books, as well as a number of other short works that had been otherwise uncollected. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details
  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (April 7, 2005)
  • ISBN-10: 0141180935
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141180939
  • Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #709,786 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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