Donald Barthelme

Sixty Stories

Buch

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 c… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Gates, David

ISBN: 978-0-14-243739-1
EAN: 9780142437391
Produktnummer: 19366650
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 480 S.
Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.7 cm 338 g
Gewicht: 338

Über den Autor

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.