Donald Barthelme

I Bought a Little City

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I Bought a Little City [is] a take on the role that a writer has in writing a story - playing god, in a certain way. Donald Antrim, novelist. 'Got a little city, ain't it pretty'. Galveston, Texas, has been bought. It suits its new owner just fine. So he starts to change it. He creates a new residential area in the shape of a Mona Lisa jigsaw puzzle, shoots six thousand dogs, and reminds those who complain that he controls the jail, the police and the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. But, playing God has its limitations, which he soon discovers when he starts to covet Sam Hong's wife. With Donald Barthelme's unmistake… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-7181-9625-7
EAN: 9780718196257
Produktnummer: 17836974
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 46 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 216 KB

Über den Autor

Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) published twelve books, including two novels and a prize-winning children's book. A playful, postmodernist writer, he wrote stories, satires, parodies and other formal experiments that challenged the forms and subjects of literature before him. He was a regular contributor to the New Yorker and taught creative writing at the University of Houston. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Book Award and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, among others.