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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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.
Imprint | Penguin Classics |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | September 2003 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | September 2003 |
Authors | Donald Barthelme |
Introduction by | David Gates |
Dimensions | 197 x 129 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 451 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-243739-1 |
Barcode | 9780142437391 |
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LSN | 0-14-243739-5 |